How Air Conditioning Works
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Published 2018-07-24
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Producer: Sean Parsons
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All Comments (21)
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I'm a certified HVAC tech. I found your explanation pretty comprehensive. Although the coloring on the diagram you used was a bit misleading.
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So is refrigerant like reusable sweat?
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i would say its more of physics than chemistry
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So turn my ac backwards if I want heat and all the cool air out lol
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Also I would consider it physics as well. It's more thermodynamics than anything else. I highly doubt us adopting CO2 for a few reasons, CO2 requires much higher operating pressures due to it being a supercritical liquid, basically CO2 only likes being in 1 of 2 states gas or a solid, unless its compressed to mind numbing pressures. With practical and conventional methods and materials it's not totally achievable. Then again I've went from seeing the rocket shuttle landing on a runway to seeing them land on the launchpad they started at. So who knows. Just my 2 cents for whatever they're worth
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Can't live without air conditioners! They've become absolute necessities of modern life.
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i have 2 tons indoor unit and 1.5 tons outdoor unit all being Samsung with same digital inverter technology and refrigerant(R410a). They also have same model numbers with the exception of the size number(AR24JVFSAWKX/N and AR18JVFSAWKX). Can i use them together?
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1:18 hahahaha
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You did a way better job of explaining this then the last video I seen.
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Good content, a lot more involved than what I thought.
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CO2 need higher pressure, not a good candidate
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Great video. Ended up learning even more.
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Thanks, a very good explanation.
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Great video Sweet way of explaining things
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Excellent explaination
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Humans: Move heat from my sweaty bedroom to outside where it's hot and miserable already. Who cares? The Environment: And I took that personally...
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This is one of the best explanations I ever heard ! ⭐
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I was under the impression the a fan blowing through heat fins/radiator block helped to dissipate the heat given off by the refrigerant condensing, but that wasn't mentioned. Is that not correct?
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Thank God for smart people
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This is the best explanation on YouTube on how the system works