[OpenTRV-dev] Thermoelectric power for TRVs?

[Damon Hart-Davis]

My feeling is, that if there is a big enough gradient to extract energy from then we're doing the heating wrong.

(I even own some huge Seebeck devices!)

Rgds

Damon


On 28 Mar 2013, at 10:24, Thomas Hood wrote:

> Electronic TRVs need electricity. A TRV is always very close to an
> (intermittent) strong heat source. It is possible to generate
> electricity from heat via the Seebeck effect. These thoughts plus
> Google led me to the following website.
> 
>    http://www.micropelt.com/products/thermogenerator.php
> 
> The company, Micropelt, also offers an evaluation board with an iM222A
> (ZigBee) chip on it.
> 
>    http://www.micropelt.com/applications/te_core_rf.php
> 
>    Characteristics
>        2.4 V, 0.1 to 10 mW thermoharvesting power after DC Booster
>        Detachable wireless sensor board
>        2.4 GHz, IEEE 802.15.4, Zigbee compliant
>        pre-qualified and certified RF module of IMST
>        SPI, I²C, JTAG and configurable I/O interfaces
>        User programmable
> 
> --
> Thomas
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