TEC1-12706 SR High Grade Peltier Cooler Module Chip

Easy and inexpensive way to fix a wine fridge

Only lasted a week

Very happy with the performance of this thing it gets very cold on the cold side my probe bottoms out at 0°C so not sure how cold but it's cold!

My wine fridge had stopped cooling so after a bit of investigation I opened up the cooling module to find a Tec1-12706 inside. I settled on the Cold & Colder option as they pretested the unit and stated it was a higher quality than some on the market. The only issue I had was finding out which side of the Tec1-12706 was the cold side. The description on Amazon did not say, or the Cold & Colder Web site itself. Datasheets also did not clearly state which side was cold. Even googling around turned up a difference of opinion. In the end, I found 4 sites saying the cold side was the one with printing on it and one against. This appeared to be the opposite of my original module but I went with it and reassembled the unit and I had cooling again. All I can think is that different manufacturers have different labeling methods and ways of indicating the cold side, so to having it precisely indicated by the seller would have saved a lot of time and worry. Only time will tell if the quality is significantly better but now at least I can drink cool wine while waiting.

Fixed my little drink fridge