Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:08:04 -0400
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From: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: repost - basic a/c hose connection question.
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As I understand it this system is use with and orfice tube.
The vanagon uses a expansion valve system.
ERic.... no time to kill
Woten, Rodney wrote:
>isn't it the CONDENSOR (not the evaporator) where the refrigerant gas is
>pressurized and condensed into a liquid, and the EVAPORATOR (not the
>condenser) where this liquid is evaporated back into a gas??? The
>evaporation is what produces the cooling, much the same way that liquid
>sweat evaporating from the skin cools a human body. That's why the
>evaporator is inside the van...to blow cool air to the front, and the
>condenser is outside the van...to cool the warm refrigerant with ambient or
>fan forced air. Hold your favorite aerosol can upside down and push the
>button. You are now evaporating into the air, a liquid which was condensed
>into the canister and under pressure. The canister is your condenser (high
>pressure), the button your expansion valve and the temperature drop you feel
>of the resulting spray is the cool you feel from your evaporator (low
>pressure). The only difference in this case is that it's not a closed loop.
>Reverse the whole process and you have a heat pump.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Zeno [mailto:vw4x4@FYI.NET]
>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:32 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: repost - basic a/c hose connection question.
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>Let think of it like this:
>You can not compress a liquid!
>High pressure gas out of compressor
>to evaporator that turn the freon into liquid
>Liquid goes to condensor turns to low pressure
>gas. Low pressure gas goes to compressor
>and the hold thing starts all over again.
>
> Eric
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>Larry Alofs wrote:
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>>Eric Zeno wrote:
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>>>Output of the compressor goes to the evaporator.
>>>Input, or SUC goes to the condensor.
>>> Eric
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>>I think that's backwards.
>> Output from compressor goes to condenser (in front).
>>From the evaporator (cold part) the refrigerant returns to the
>>compressor. (Haynes 3-11)
>> Larry A.
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>>>Owen wrote:
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>>>>I posted this question yesterday. I apologize for the repost of this
>>>>but I am squeezed for time trying to get on the road for the weekend.
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>>>>Which hose connects to the SUC connection on the compressor? The one
>>>>going up to the evaporator or the one coming from the condenser up
>>>>front?
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>>>>My logic is that the long hose coming from the front of the van would
>>>>connect here.
>>>>
>>>>Since it wasn't hooked up when I bought it I am not sure. Clearly I
>>>>don't have the basic refrigeration principles down pat.
>>>>
>>>>Owen Brand
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