[Jason] learned a lot by successfully automating this meat smoker. This is just the first step in [Jason’s] smoker project. He decided to begin by hacking a cheaper charcoal-fed unit first, before ...

The circuit in Fig 1 controls the temperature of a cooled CCD by using a two- or three-stage Peltier cooler running at about 50W. Usually, you would run a Peltier cooler at close to full cooling power ...