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- From: (Eric Youngblood)
- Subject: Re: How do I start working on my A/C?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.221748.16681@bnr.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:17:48 GMT
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- In article <23529@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe) writes:
- |> 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
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- I couldnt have said it better.
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- Thankyou.
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- Ericy
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