{"id":462984,"date":"2026-08-27T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/tegs-in-thermal-desktop\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:23:44","slug":"tegs-in-thermal-desktop","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/tegs-in-thermal-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"TEGs in Thermal Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near as I can tell, this is the replacement for the CRTech forums for Thermal Desktop questions?<\/p>\n<p>I am working with TEGs for the first time, and I have some confusion about how they work in TD. I am in early design phases, and was hoping I could use my TD model to help predict power output from a TEG. 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