This is my first attempt at building a thermoelectricaly cooled astronomy camera. The main components consist of an unmodified webcam (aside from being removed from the factory casing), a standard digital home thermostat, a thermoelectric coupler scavenged from a portable 12 volt cooler and a mid size project box. So far as I can tell the thermostat is only capable of reading as low as 5.5 degrees Celsius, but I do know it can get colder than that since I had frost form on the camera during one test. Can't wait to start on Model 002.
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