How do air conditioners producing heat “freeze”?

Question

It seems like they’d keep from being frozen because of creating heat for a house.

In: Technology

Answer 1

Air conditioners don’t really “produce” heat/cold. They “transfer” heat from one side to the other.

In summer, AC takes the heat from inside the house, and push it outside, which makes the inside colder and outside hotter.

In winter, AC takes the heat from outside, and push it inside. Since it’s already pretty cold outside, taking the little heat there makes it *even colder* and thus the outside half of the AC can freeze.