TIP120 pid control

Using Arduino General Electronics
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Any suggestions? about others ICs than TIP120. I want to use with power supply 12 V 2 A to power up the heat-cooling Peltier up to 65 degree C.

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Well, the TIP120 is essentially obsolete, and drops 1 V and therefore dissipates 2 Watts at 2 Amps, so you would certainly need a heatsink.

Nowadays, use a logic-level FET such as an AOD4184 which turns on hard at 4.5 V, dissipating only 40 mW at 2 Amps so needing no heatsink.

Cheaply available on eBay as a ready-assembled module with opto-isolation.

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Thanks a lot.