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Old 2021-04-25, 17:38   Link #7
Garr
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A thermoelectric generator, it works by using a source of heat to induce an electrical current in junctions of dissimilar metals called thermocouples to absorb the heat and generate electricity. When the heat makes contact with the thermocouples, the heat causes the electrons in the thermocouples' atoms to move through the circuit with the positive junction containing an excess of electrons and emitting it and the negative junction containing a deficiency of electrons, enabling it to absorb the excess electrons from the positive junction, and when the negative junction gets full, it discharges the excess electrons to the adjacent positive junction of another thermocouple instead of sending it back to its own positive junction because its connection is facing the source of heat which repels the electrons to the connection with the adjacent thermocouple which is not facing the heat source, generating a flow of electrical current which is stopped only when the heat source is removed and the excess electrons have returned back to the positive junctions. In this configuration, the thermoelectric generator uses a gas burner as the heat source.

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