December 26, 2008
How Air Conditioning Work
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Air conditioning has fundamentally changed how people experience the world. When it's hot outside, walking into an air-conditioned house is like walking into another season. Few pieces of technology have had such a striking effect on people's daily lives. Find out how air conditioners keep us cool. Credits: , HowStuffWorks
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simple way to explain that is a cup with ice tea on a warm day .. cup is cold and water in the air sticks to the outside of the cup .. same happens with that cold coil inside your home when the warmer air is passed over it
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THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES If you do not copy and? paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours this video is amazing
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YORK's better
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I meant to say the very basic princibles of it are right on the money. They have the heat exchanger right inside the room? Hows that work?
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Ones in england have them like half way up the buildings and only in shops usally, some times bigger building like schools have them in the room.
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It's simplified for sure, but from what i know of automotive A/C. The way he explained it was right on the money.
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Air conditioning. The greatest luxury.
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The reason your ac has a pipe that throws water.Your ac is a dehumidafier which pulls humidity from the air in your house when that warm ar hits that coold indoor coil it creates condensation which collects in a drain pan under neeth the ac coils which in turn drain out the pvc condensation pipe leading out of your house.
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May i use this video?
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and why my aircondition has a pipe that throws water…?
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These work like computer water cooling systems, what he sed was wrong in some aspects. All it does is cold water gets pushes around the house. The fan cools it down.
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stop compleining,this video is not for teaching anything it was made for the simple joe at home,that just wants to know how it works,they are not gonna get into so much details.
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lol, you wont learn how an AC unit work in 1 minute 24 seconds…..
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i dont get it : (
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stoopid graphic. it shows the condenser in red as he talks about evaporation, then shows the evaporator in blue as he talks about condensation.
guess this this designed to fool the unwary.
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The stupidity of this video is the gift that keeps on giving. It is my own fault for hoping that this moron might respond in a timely manner. I give up.
Stupid is as stupid does. Run Forrest, run!
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This video is an embarrassment to the HVAC industry. That goober needs to shut his pie-hole and quit pretending he knows squat about refrigeration.
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lol, tell me how it work.
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thts how noob are you
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it requiers some modification to the "A-coil" on top of the furnace, but to anyone with solderin skills, its easy.
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hmm, how many of you have a chest type freezer running in your basement/where ever, running at 0 to -5degrees? i do, and thats how i cool my home plus keeping my extra food frozen. the concept is there, just figuering out the dynamics of it is what i have done for the past 2 years during the cooling season. now i cool my home(1500sqf) for 1/2 the cost of running that dang noisy compresser outside.
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this is very erronous….CONDENSATION first and then CONVECTION must occur for air conditioning to work effectively.
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This video was made by a guy who is completely ignorant of the concept of refrigeration/air conditioning.
The concept is and always has been the removal of heat. Even in old turn of the century air conditioners they would bring blocks of ice and air would blow across them and the ice would absorb the heat (thermodynamics) and melt and the heat would be carried out in the water down the drain.
There is no such scientific thing as cold air, just air with less heat.
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