TEC controllers are used for thermoelectric cooling and heating in combination with Peltier elements or resistive heaters. Peltier elements are heat pumps which transfer heat from one side to the other, depending on the direction of the electrical current. TEC controllers are used to drive the Peltier elements.
The following tutorial videos present the features of our products and explain how to set up our controllers step by step.
Attention! Due to a new TEC Configuration Software, these videos contain deviations if you are using your TEC Controller with firmware v6.00 or higher. We apologize for the inconvenience. Updated and new videos will follow soon!
TEC Controllers
Basics / Setup
This series of videos explains the necessary steps to set up a TEC controller. As an example we configure and optimize it to keep an object at a constant temperature.
Thermoelectric Cooling
This video shows in an example how the Peltier effect is used to cool an object to -8 °C. You can observe the formation of ice at that low temperature.
TEC-Family Controllers
This video is an overview for our TEC-family Peltier controllers. We present the most important features and discuss the advantages of DC current over PWM control, to drive Peltier elements.
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Hardware
This video will show you how to prepare and solder temperature sensors and how to connect and set up the cooling application.
Temperature Measurement
To measure the temperature of an object and of the heatsink, some configurations have to be made for the different sensor types.
Peltier Element Characteristics
This video explains how to find the characteristics of a Peltier element and how to use these values to configure a TEC controller.
Temperature control
The goal of this video is to configure a TEC controller of Meerstetter Engineering to keep an object at a predefined constant temperature.
Auto Tuning
This video explains how to use the auto tuning function of the service software to optimize the parameters of the TEC controller.
Thermoelectric Cooling Design
This video explains the basics of thermoelectric cooling. We exemplify important design steps to sucessfully design a thermoelectric application using TEC controllers and Peltier elements.