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Originally Posted by jase
Looks impressive.  Is the Outback cooler actually regulated and is the temp measurable at all?
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Bit of info:
The outback cooler uses a controller circuit to set and regulate the temperature of the DSI CCD image sensor. The CCD temperature is set and indicated on the control panel on the rear of the Outback Cooler (
Error! Reference source not found.). The heat sink occupies about 2/3 of the back and the control panel takes up the rest of the space. There is one red button in the middle of the control panel that allows you to change the temperature setting. Each time you press the button, the target temperature moves to the next colder temperature. When you reach the coldest setting it switches back to the warmest.
Seven LED’s that indicate the temperature you have set (the target) and the current temperature of the cold finger. The LED's correspond to temperatures ranging from +20 °C to -10 °C (68 °F to 14 °F) in steps of 5 °C (9 °F), arranged with the warmest temperature at the left, near the button.
Not really tring to freeze it completely, but just get the first bit of temp reduction which gives the highest returns...........
After that, the law of deminishing returns kicks in.....
cheers
John