Cold Plate Applications

TITER PLATE COOLING

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Titer Plate Cooling:

titer plate cooling AHP-300CP

The WWW brings many to TECA’s door. These particular customer requirements were filled by an AHP-300CP Peltier cold plate. He needed to control the temperature of a 96 well titer plate in a new product design. But he needed just a few things the standard unit didn’t provide and he didn’t need some that it did provide. He wanted a 24 VDC heat cool system with continuous fan operation and a custom tap pattern on the cold plate.

In short order the TECA sales team assigned a preliminary part number, passed the requirements through to engineering and together the first units were modified and shipped. This gave the customer plenty of time to work with the solid state cold plates and refine his requirements into the custom design he uses today.

The AHP-300CP series is now replaced by a newer and more efficient model the AHP-470CP series.

MOTOR SPORT

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Motor Sport:

motor sport cold plate

A rally car racing team had a need to chill drinking water inside their moving vehicles, while they raced through very hot desert conditions. A solid state cold plate based on TECA model AHP-300CP.

The AHP-300CP thermoelectric cold plate (Peltier cold plate), which draws power directly from the car battery, was the solution to maintain the temperature of the water at an acceptable level. With a ready supply of chilled water, the racing team could drive at peak performance.

The AHP-300CP series is now replaced by a newer and more efficient model the AHP-470CP series.

LOW TEMPERATURE CASCADE

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Low Temperature Cascade

low temperature cascade

 

A cascade sandwich is what we called this that day, built using two AHP-300CP cold plates. The customer needed a fairly large mass cycle between two extremes. The mass and size of the load were limiting factors. The pictures and assembly look crude, and it was, but they were also effective.

It was determined that a final design based on standard components would be successful and it was.

The AHP-300CP series is now replaced by a newer and more efficient model the AHP-470CP series.

CONDENSATION TEST

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Condensation Test:

condensation test
AHP-150CP
condensation test cold plate
AHP-250CP

 

A company that offers a broad range of door and window components and related building products with proven product lines and a multi-state collection of modern manufacturing facilities uses the AHP-150CP in a Canadian Fog Box, for testing double pane windows for condensation.

The AHP-150CP has been replaced by a newer and more efficient model the AHP-250CP series.

OEM LABORATORY EQUIPMENT

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OEM Laboratory Equipment:

OEM laboratory equipment
AHP-150CP
OEM laboratory equipment
AHP-250CP

 

As a component in an OEM laboratory chamber, the AHP-150CP condenses out moisture to control humidity. The chamber is primarily used in hospital laboratories. The small size of the AHP-150CP helped reduce the footprint of the chamber and helped increase the work space within the chamber.

The AHP-150CP is maintenance free and the reliability of its thermoelectric cooling technology made our smallest cold plate the perfect OEM solution for this customer.

The AHP-150CP has been replaced by a newer and more efficient model the AHP-250CP series.

LIQUID COOLED COLD PLATE

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Liquid Cooled Cold Plate:

liquid cooled cold plate

Our customer asked for a quote on delivery and price for the LHP-800CPHC. He then asked if we had a liquid cooled version of the AHP-1200CPHC (15″ x 7.3″ plate)? The product had been in the works but on the back burner. This customers request pulled it to the front.

We offered an LHP1200CP. It would be liquid cooled with 15 x 7.3 cold plate requiring 24 VDC input. The customer later set it up with a water pump and a radiator/fan arrangement to provide a recirculation cooling water path rather than connecting to the tap and sending it down the drain.

COLD PROBE

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Cold Probe Medical Application:

cold probe

A Medial Doctor was interested in a Peltier based “Cold Probe” to anesthetize the skin prior to treatment. He wanted an instrument that ran on batteries based around the Otoscope or the Ophthalmoscope with interchangeable heads. It was a medical application, a prototype and a long shot one at that.

He came to TECA with some rather limiting criteria to do a big job considering the load human skin presents. We did our best and gave the good Doctor his cold probe. We designed it, packaged it, powered it and built it. But not many folks really needed it. Not a complete market success but a technical one.

INDUSTRIAL ADHESIVE COOLING

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Industrial Adhesive Cooling:

industrial adhesive cooling

These folks needed to cool a thick fluid that ends up being gaskets when robotically dispensed. A custom version of our AHP-1200CP fit the bill perfectly. Now the product is dispensed consistently because of the temperature control provided by thermoelectrics.

CUSTOM COLD PLATE

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Custom Cold Plate Application:

custom cold plate

The people at MIT who wanted a custom cold plate with plain black anodized cold plate never did tell us what it was for. We think maybe they are using it to calibrate or adjust infra red temperature detectors. We could be wrong. They might have thought it just looked cool.

For whatever reason, they told us what they wanted and we did our best to meet their requirement.

AVIONICS

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Avionics cooling application:

avionics cold plate
avinoics TE cold plate

 

A branch of the US military had an overheating problem with a high-tech radio inside the wing of a fighter aircraft. TECA developed a custom, high-performance cold plate that withstand the shock, vibration, and G forces created by one of the most technically advanced aircraft.

In order to assure maximum strength with minimum weight, TECA’s Advanced Machining Center machines the finned heat sinks for each cooler from a single blocks of material

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