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To: TalonDJ; whd23
The traditional system does not just move heat around.

It doesn't? What does it do?

Here's my understanding of how a car A/C works. The refrigerant expands adiabatically from its compressed state, rapidly cooling. The cold refrigerant passes through a heat exchanger where it absorbs heat from the car's warm interior air. The refrigerant gets compressed & heats up even more, then passes through another exchanger to give off some of its heat to the outside air, and then back to the expansion valve again.

I.e., it moves heat from the interior car air to the outside air.

175 posted on 07/06/2005 11:57:42 AM PDT by Sloth (History's greatest monsters: Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Durbin)
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To: Sloth

No, no, no. It works like this: You turn the little knob to all blue then the fan switch thingy to the picture of the Big Fan. Cold air comes out the hole in the dash and you make the slats turn to blow in your face. THAT'S how it works..........


183 posted on 07/06/2005 12:11:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (The Army makes the world safe for democracy. The Marines make the world safe for the Army.....)
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To: Sloth

you're kinda right. but it doesn't "move heat". think of it like this. what happens when you add cold water to hot water? it equalizes the tempreture, it doesn't displace it. a cars a/c unit sucks the heat from the (outside) air, then pushes the cold air into the vehicle, combining it with the warm air in the vehicle, which equalizes the difference between the two air tempretures. the excess (equalized tempreture) air is bled out of the vehicle (like what would happen if you kept filling the container of hot water with cold water until it overflowed.)


184 posted on 07/06/2005 12:12:56 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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