Air Conditioner — General Information (Scorpio 1)

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 interior, even when cooling is not required.

The cooling portion of an air conditioning system works much like a home 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 turns into a liquid phase. The refrigerant then returns to the evaporator, where it takes heat from the air passing over the evaporator plates, turns back into a gas phase, and the cycle repeats.

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