Running cooled seats blows hot air through back vents?

[Dezrado]

Everytime i run my cooled seats it blows hot air through the back vents of the front seats. Is this normal? I cant run them when someone sits jn the back because it heats up their legs really bad.

[RhinoGuy]

It's normal.

[dc1515]

Normal

[Dezrado]

Well that blows haha

[5829BMG]

Can't have cold without compression and compression byproduct is heat.

[pm26]

These cooled seats are really just a lot of hot air.

[Dezrado]

Just wondering because my raptor blew fresh air and never noticed any hot air being blown out, maybe they routed it out through somewhere else, makes more sense than the chevys design of blowing it to the passengers sitting in the back

[brwk]

Heats got to go somewhere.

[CounterMeasure]

Can't have cold without compression and compression byproduct is heat.

 

Yes you can have cold without compression. The cooled seats use TEC elements, which work on the Peltier effect. No compression, just voltage that pulls heat in one direction across the P/N junction. And as the OP found out, the heat is expelled out the back, and rather noisily too.

 

Now, why GM thought it was a good idea to dump that heat right to the rear passengers at almost face level is beyond me.

[davidio840]

 

Now, why GM thought it was a good idea to dump that heat right to the rear passengers at almost face level is beyond me.

 

 

No kidding.. And to add to that, they didn't put any AC vents back there for whatever reason..

[5829BMG]

 

Yes you can have cold without compression. The cooled seats use TEC elements, which work on the Peltier effect. No compression, just voltage that pulls heat in one direction across the P/N junction. And as the OP found out, the heat is expelled out the back, and rather noisily too.

 

Now, why GM thought it was a good idea to dump that heat right to the rear passengers at almost face level is beyond me.

The greatest thing for me being born ignorant is I learn something new everyday

[redwngr]

Peltier Effect: (more of today's lesson )

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

[Brianibew]

those are intake ports on the back side of the front seats. They do no exhaust air.

[pm26]

 

Yes you can have cold without compression. The cooled seats use TEC elements, which work on the Peltier effect. No compression, just voltage that pulls heat in one direction across the P/N junction. And as the OP found out, the heat is expelled out the back, and rather noisily too.

 

Now, why GM thought it was a good idea to dump that heat right to the rear passengers at almost face level is beyond me.

They may work on the Peltier effect, but when assembled they all work on Pedro effect.

[Dezrado]

those are intake ports on the back side of the front seats. They do no exhaust air.

is mine backwards then?