Air conditioner — general information

In combination with a heater, the system allows you to create any temperature within reasonable limits in the car interior, as well as reduce the humidity of the air entering the cabin, even when cooling is not required.

The cooling part of the air conditioner system works in the same way as a household refrigerator. The compressor, driven by a belt from the crankshaft pulley, takes the refrigerant in the gas phase from the evaporator and compresses it. The compressed refrigerant passes through the condenser, where it gives off heat and passes into the liquid phase. After that, the refrigerant returns to the evaporator, where it takes heat from the air passing through the evaporator plates, again passes into the gas phase, and the cycle repeats.

When the air conditioning system is turned on, the engine idle speed is automatically raised.