New Peltier Cooler for Canon 6D

March 2014: Using the same plastic enclosure as before, I built this new cooler for my new Canon 6D Baader modified camera (by Hypercams). The body of this camera is quite a bit larger than the 1000D, but fortunately it fits just perfectly (corner to corner). Since there is less space inside to add thermal insulation, and out of sheer respect for the new camera, I decided to use rubber EVA foam instead of the sprayed foam, placing it outside and inside the box.

There is no space to accommodate the USB mini plug, so I decided to connect via the camera´s built-in WiFi Ad-Hoc access point to my laptop for remote shooting. It works great!
UPDATE 2014-05-14: will drill a hole and use an USB cable, since I had many wifi disconnects on the field, even when using a wifi booster with my laptop. Not sure why, maybe an RF interference, maybe dew on the cooler box acting as a Faraday shield.

Performance is similar to my previous cooler (about 14°C drop vs ambient at the sensor level while shooting 10-minute exposures), although likely due to the thinner insulation and the higher heat dissipation of this camera, it ends up settling two or three °C higher than the other design.

I did not put an electronic thermometer in this case, to save some space and to keep it simple, and also because I am using BackyardEOS in my sessions now, that includes handy sensor temperature information.

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