It was just a lark. One of the flow meters I bought on eBay for the
watermaker project came with this weird contraption still attached. It
was a pair of water cooled heat sinks with a pair of Peilter chips
sandwiched between. I played with it a couple of times and it sat on my
work bench for a month before I had this revelation. I dug out a chunk
of aluminum scrap, set up a fly cutter to the diameter of a beer can and
milled a semicircle down one side so the can would be in good contact.
Carved up a block of scrap Divinicell the same way for insulation and
covered it in glass/epoxy.

Swapping out one of the heat sinks for the aluminum block and I had an
electric coosy! I am going to mount it on one side of the binnacle and
figure a way to pipe a small flow of water to it. The nice part is that
with a DPDT switch I can reverse the voltage and keep my coffee hot in
the morning and beer cold in the afternoon.

The down side is that while standard US beer cans and Heinie bottles
fit, the new Red Stripes don't.

Jim Conlin wrote:

I want to hear more about that beer cooler!

Glenn Ashmore wrote:


SNIP

To keep it boat related the aluminum was for a very high tech piece of
boating equipment. A pielter effect thermoelectric beer coozy. :-)



SNIP


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Glenn Ashmore

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