Hello! Would appreciate any basic explanation on how airconditioners work. Mine just got busted (and I’m from a very hot, tropical country!). I’m tempted to just call the maintenance guy, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to first learn about it before spending some dough. I’ll be using A/C units all my life anyway.
Been watching some YT videos but once terms like “latent heat vaporization” are mentioned, my mind just shuts off. Many thanks to all the articulate and patient folks out there!
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AC has thin little metal fins on the front that get really cold and a fan that sucks the room’s air into the fins.
The hot room air passes threw the fins and turns cold, this air is thrown back into the room.
Since the only way to make air cold is to remove heat from it, you transfer this heat to the outside part of the AC. It has the same little metal fins on the other side of the AC. These fins now have the heat from the inside air. A fan blasts outdoor air threw the fins, which cools the outside fins off. Now the heat from inside has been released!
Do this over and over, little by little and you are left with only cold air. Which is just air that has had heat removed from it.
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