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- From: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: How do I start working on my A/C?
- Message-ID: <23529@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:23:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug3.190028.12355@afit.af.mil> <BsutzG.3r1@news.udel.edu>
- Reply-To: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.autos.tech, iseman@chopin.udel.edu (Stephen Early) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.124354.1@pa881a.inland.com> nason@pa881a.inland.com write
- >s:
- >>>
- >>
- >>Assuming your in Engineering school, the theory in not too difficult.
- >>Refrigerant is exposed to low pressure, boils, and therefor absorbs heat.
- >
- >WHAT!, NO NO NO.
-
- *YES* *YES* *YES*
-
- >First of all, refrigerant exposed to low pressure will cool.
- >
- >Second, if a substance boils it certainly does NOT absorb heat-it gives heat
- >off.
- >
- >Steve
-
- *NO* *NO* *NO*
-
- The original poster is correct! A liquid (such as R-12, or water for
- that matter) subjected to a sufficiently low pressure will evaporate
- rapidly (boil). It requires heat (the heat of vaporization) to boil;
- its temperature will drop to attract heat from something else (like
- the A/C evaporator fins). When it draws heat from that evaporator, the
- evaporator loses heat and gets cold.
-
- A boiling substance *must* absorb heat in order to boil. Boiling water
- on the stove will seem to give off heat because it is hotter than its
- surroundings, but it must absorb more heat from the stove than it gives
- off or it won't boil.
-
- -DaveP
-