Thread: How does a thermocouple have enough power to operate a gas valve?
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Default How does a thermocouple have enough power to operate a gas valve?
A thermocouple produces enough to power a spacecraft?!? Or just for some small electronics?


On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 21:04:59 -0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm sure you know this but the Voyager spacecraft are using thermocouples
using the heat from decaying plutonium for power all the way out in the
cosmos. it may be reducing now but its been one heck of a long time.
Brian
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