The Peltier Effect is a fascinating bit of thermoelectric magic. A Peltier Junction has a hot surface, a cold surface, and two wires. Applying DC electricity to the wires heats the hot surface and cools the cold surface. It’s used in compact, silent refrigerators, for example, which don’t have to have a bulky, noisy compressor.
Hector Fratty
Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.