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Does anyone cool their DMK, ZWO or Grasshopper

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Like the header says does anyone cool their DMK, ZWO or Grasshopper cameras.


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Insulation rather than "cooling"....aluminium foil wrap seems to reduce the ambient heat build up.
I assume "active" cooling via a Peltier would be possible - not sure what the real benefits would be - reduced noise?


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Merlin66 wrote:Insulation rather than "cooling"....aluminium foil wrap seems to reduce the ambient heat build up.
I assume "active" cooling via a Peltier would be possible - not sure what the real benefits would be - reduced noise?
Yeah reduced noise would be right and with our extreme temperatures here in Nth Queensland I thought it might be a something to look into.


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Hi Alan

yes we had that discussion already and there are some cracks who cool the CCD. Some work just with a heat sink, others add a peltier element to the housing with a heat sink. I have all the stuff to do such a mod but we have very seldom very hot days which are calling for such a tuning. So I can't really comment about the effect realised


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I think Bob Yoesle did this with a camera...


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Thanks guys I am going to look into this because we have temps in the high 30's in summer and high 20's in winter.


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Bob definitely has a thread about it on the CN forum, pm him on there, i'm sure he will dive into the discussion.


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Thanks Mark.


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Mark do you know Bob Yoesle cloudy Nights user name.


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Found it Byoesle


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