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A sealing member for a thermoelectric assembly includes an elastomeric body having one or more apertures formed therethrough for sealingly receiving an electrical wire projecting from the thermoelectric module. Sealing engagement between each electrical wire and each aperture may be enhanced by the

A sealing member for a thermoelectric assembly includes an elastomeric body having one or more apertures formed therethrough for sealingly receiving an electrical wire projecting from the thermoelectric module. Sealing engagement between each electrical wire and each aperture may be enhanced by the use of a sealing agent, or by molding the wire, its sheath or a wire connector to each aperture. Preferably, a pair of wire guides project from the sealing member, each having a central channel in substantial registry with one of the apertures and providing additional surface area for wire support which reduces any tendency to create spaces between the wires and apertures. The sealing member may include one or more peripheral channels to capture water vapor, one or more indexing guides which receive fasteners from the assembly to locate the sealing member therein, as well as insulative filler material, and/or a central insulative channel.

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A sealing member for a thermoelectric assembly includes an elastomeric body having one or more apertures formed therethrough for sealingly receiving an electrical wire projecting from the thermoelectric module. Sealing engagement between each electrical wire and each aperture may be enhanced by the

A sealing member for a thermoelectric assembly includes an elastomeric body having one or more apertures formed therethrough for sealingly receiving an electrical wire projecting from the thermoelectric module. Sealing engagement between each electrical wire and each aperture may be enhanced by the use of a sealing agent, or by molding the wire, its sheath or a wire connector to each aperture. Preferably, a pair of wire guides project from the sealing member, each having a central channel in substantial registry with one of the apertures and providing additional surface area for wire support which reduces any tendency to create spaces between the wires and apertures. The sealing member may include one or more peripheral channels to capture water vapor, one or more indexing guides which receive fasteners from the assembly to locate the sealing member therein, as well as insulative filler material, and/or a central insulative channel. sion of said n bit wide data unit; and in the event an error is detected in the received version of said n bit wide data unit, generating a signal indicative of said error. 3. The method of claim 2 wherein said n bit wide data unit further includes a framing signal and said converting step includes the step of utilizing said framing signal to obtain proper word framing for said plurality of received interleaved data words. 4. The method of claim 3 wherein said framing signal comprises a parity signal. 5. The method of claim 4 wherein said framing signal comprises a fixed data pattern. 6. The method of claim 5 wherein said fixed data pattern comprises a single bit. 7. The method of claim 5 wherein said fixed data pattern comprises a multi-bit data pattern. 8. The method of claim 2 wherein said data word and said error detection code comprise scrambled data and said converting step comprises the step of de-scrambling said scrambled data. 9. The method of claim 1 wherein m equals 4. 10. The method of claim 1 wherein m equals 10. 11. The method of claim 1 wherein each n bit wide data unit includes a data word and a error correction code and said method further includes the step following said de-interleaving step of utilizing said error correction code to detect whether an error is present in the received version of said n bit wide data units; and in the event an error is detected in the received version of one of said n bit wide data units, correcting the error in the respective received n bit wide data unit. 12. The method of claim 11 wherein each n bit wide data unit further includes a framing signal and said converting step includes the step of utilizing said framing signal to obtain proper word framing for said plurality of received interleaved data words. 13. The method of claim 12 wherein said framing signal comprises a parity signal. 14. The method of claim 12 wherein said framing signal comprises a fixed data pattern. 15. The method of claim 14 wherein said fixed data pattern comprises a single bit. 16. The method of claim 14 wherein said fixed data pattern comprises a multi-bit data pattern. 17. The method of claim 11 wherein said data word and said error correction code comprise scrambled data and said converting step comprises the step of de-scrambling said scrambled data. 18. The method of claim 11 wherein m equals 4. 19. The method of claim 11 wherein m equals 10. 20. Apparatus for transmitting data over a serial data channel comprising: receive logic for receiving a plurality of n bit wide data units; interleave logic for selectively interleaving the n bits of each one of said plurality of n bit wide data units with selected bits of other ones of said plurality of n bit wide data units to form a plurality of interleaved data words; serialization logic operative to generate a serial data stream representative of said plurality of received plurality of n bit wide data units in which adjacent bits within said plurality of data units are spaced apart by at least p bits in said serial data stream; transmit logic for transmitting said serial data stream over said serial data channel; and receive logic for receiving said serial data stream transmitted over said serial data channel; de-interleave logic for de-interleaving said serial data stream to reproduce said plurality of data units. 21. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein said interleave logic includes m cascaded registers, said m cascaded registers including a receive register for receiving said plurality of data words and m-1 additional cascaded registers, said interleave logic further including an output register, said m cascaded registers and said output register having inputs and outputs, said inputs of said m-1 cascaded registers being coupled to at least selected outputs of a preceeding cascaded register such that said m-1 additional cascaded registers each produce at their respective outputs time delayed bits from the preceeding cascaded regis ter, selected outputs of said cascaded registers being coupled to selected inputs of said output register, said apparatus further including a serializer for serializing data appearing at the outputs of said output register to produce said serial data stream; and selected outputs of said cascaded registers being coupled to selected inputs of said output register such that adjacent bits in said received data words are spaced apart by said m bits in said serial data stream. 22. The apparatus of claim 21 wherein said de-interleave logic includes a de-serializer for generating parallel data words from said serial data stream received over said serial channel, m+1 registers for storing m+1 sequentially received parallel data words and a multiplexer for selecting bits from said m+1 registers to reconstruct successive ones of said plurality of words received at said receive register. 23. A method for transmitting data over a plurality of serial data channels comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of data units, each of said data units having a predetermined width; dividing each of said received data units into p lesser width data units for transmission over p serial data channels, where p is an integer greater than or equal to two; generating p serial data streams from said p lesser width data units by interleaving the bits of each lesser width data unit with bits of other lesser width data units such that each bit of each one of said p lesser width data units is spaced apart by at least m bits in the respective serial data streams, where m is an integer greater than or equal to two; transmitting said p serial data streams over said p serial data channels; receiving said p serial data streams; de-serializing the respective received serial data stream for each of said p serial data channels; for each received serial data stream, de-interleaving the bits received over the respective serial data channel to regenerate a received version of the respective lesser width data unit; and combining said received versions of said p lesser width data units to regenerate received data units corresponding to said plurality of data units. 24. The method of claim 23 wherein some adjacent pairs of bits of said p lesser width data units are spaced apart by m bits in the respective serial data stream and at least one adjacent pair of bits of each lesser width data unit is spaced apart by more than m bits in the respective serial data stream. 25. The method of claim 23 wherein each one of said plurality of data units includes a data portion and an error detection code portion. 26. The method of claim 25 further including the step of utilizing said error detection code portion to identify a single bit error in the respective received data unit resulting from a burst error of length less than or equal to m in one of said plurality of serial data channels and generating a signal identifying the single bit error. 27. The method of claim 26 wherein m equals 4. 28. The method of claim 26 wherein m equals 10. 29. The method of claim 23 wherein each of said plurality of data units includes a data portion and an error correction code portion. 30. The method of claim 29 further including the step of utilizing said error correction code to correct a single bit error in the received data unit resulting from a burst error of length less than or equal to m in one of said plurality of serial data channels. 31. The method of claim 30 wherein m equals 4. 32. The method of claim 30 wherein m equals 10. 33. The method of claim 23 further including the step of transmitting over each of said serial data channels a framing signal within the respective serial data stream, said framing signal repeatedly providing an indication of proper word framing following the step of de-serializing the respective received serial data stream. 34. The method of claim 33 wherein said framing signal comprises a fixed data pattern. 35. The method of claim 33 wherein said