2 button AC control, whats it do?

[Crawl]

The ac button clicks twice, firt turns orange, push again turns green. i assume the green is AC, what does it mean when its at the first liight(orange) ???

 

[ikickuintheball]

I don't know what it means, but I know that the orange setting sucks.

 

[Crawl]

ok so we got 2 ppl now with no idea what the first setting is

 

[Denji]

Ive never heard of that... i have off and green.

 

[CyberEye]

I've only ever seen it on 1g's. And it means this as far as I know, Green is AC on constantly. Orange come's on, cools it down to a certain temp than shuts off, than turns back on once it warms up again. I think.

 

[tobbern]

Amber is econo position (a\c compressor runs when needed)

green is a\c position (a\c compressor runs all the time)

Warning Green can loose you streetraces...turn it off for highperformance

 

[JST2FST]

Warning Green can loose you streetraces...turn it off for highperformance

so thats why that geo metro beat me.

 

[Royalty]

Amber is econo position (a\c compressor runs when needed)

green is a\c position (a\c compressor runs all the time)

Warning Green can loose you streetraces...turn it off for highperformance

so that means the aar has a preset temp that it likes to maintain? how does it know what its needed

 

[tobbern]

Not sure how it regulates.. prob. a thermometer somewhere...

If the button is green during streetracing mode you ocasionally get "danger to manifold" warnings but they can be reset by unhooking your ecu and watching f&f then hooking it back up.

 

[IHeartTurbo]

green is a\c position (a\c compressor runs all the time)

The compressor never runs all the time. If it did, you would be blowing the discharge line up all the time. There's a clutch on the compressor to turn it on or off, doesn't matter which setting you have it on. The orange probably just turns the blowers off and on and the green just keeps them on all the time.

Not sure how it regulates.. prob. a thermometer somewhere...

Yup, there's a thermistor inside the car.

 

[tobbern]

dunno..here is a direct quote from the owners manual:

A\C position(green)
Effective when the humidity is high or when it is
very hot. The air condition compressor operates
constantly for additional coolin

 

[slow4G63]

mine's always green... WTF

 

[kyledykstra]

From a post by Lorrin Barth:

"When the yellow light is on, the air conditioner delivers cold air when the interior of the car is hot and then gradually tempers the air as the interior of the car cools down. This is done by gradually changing the temperature set points at which the compressor cycles to higher temperatures."

Most people believe that the green light means the air conditioner compressor stays on all the time. This is not true.

"When the green light is on the air conditioner cycles off when the oulet temperature of the evaporator drops to 37 degrees and cycles on when it rises to 39 degrees. In other words, cold air all of the time. Of course, as in really hot weather, the evaporator temperature may take a long time to drop to 37 degress, and this is going to depend on the condition of the system too, making you think it never cycles.

So, as you can now see, the compressor cycles in either mode. To see exactly how this all works check out the graph at the bottom of page 24-4 of the "Technical Information Manual". "

1000AAQ > *

 

[Crawl]

Thanx for all the replies, mine is a 2G and i have the 2 stage AC button, dont know if that was maybe something only GSX got or what, but I always just used green, seemed to keep the car much colder

 

[Perch - Tsi]

The ac system doesnt know the temp inside the car, it wouldnt give a crap anyway,
it does however know the pressure inside of the condeser core, and the pressure switch will cycle the compressor to maintain a given temp via the pressure and there fore the inferred temperature of the coolant...
its a dual stage compressor, orange runs it a little, green runs it a lot,
the temp from your ac should be about 30-35 degrees below ambient on green,
never measured the econo section, but it doesnt seem to do much but blow air around

 

[cuttheduck]

My 2g's have always had a two stage button too, guess you guys got jipped.

 

[IHeartTurbo]

The ac system doesnt know the temp inside the car

Maybe not on our cars, but on cars that automatically adjust the temperature by turning on the a/c or heat dependind on the temp in the car, then yes they do. On these there IS a thermistor inside the cabin so the a/c system knows what the temp is. Believe me, I just got outta a/c class a few weeks ago.

 

[sYnOnYx]

i wanted to ask what the button did too, i thought it was a ' max a/c or max heater' button.

i wanted to ask but didnt wana seem like a noob

 

[sjgYFZ200]

On my 1g, it seems that the second button is a seperate setting, and it makes everything 10 degrees colder. Its awesome and cools the car down real quick. Gotta love freeon

 

[IHeartTurbo]

On my 1g, it seems that the second button is a seperate setting, and it makes everything 10 degrees colder. Its awesome and cools the car down real quick. Gotta love freeon

Damn straight. If only those amn tree huggers would stop complaining about it eating up the ozone, we might still be able to use it. It's cooling abilities > R134a's.

 

[Crawl]

haha not really too much of a noob question seeing how there is clearly alot of us who didnt know

 

[leakyfaucet]

Damn straight. If only those amn tree huggers would stop complaining about it eating up the ozone, we might still be able to use it. It's cooling abilities > R134a's.

You're right, we should go back to dumping our feces in the street and throwing garbage and used oil in our rivers, that would be better for America.

 

[Royalty]

You're right, we should go back to dumping our feces in the street and throwing garbage and used oil in our rivers, that would be better for America.

better it be the average joe than Marlboro, Chemical plants, Wal-marts or your nearest tire factory.

 

[sjgYFZ200]

I don't care, If I have cold air because of freeon, and maybe a bird or two dies because of depleted ozone, at least I'm nice and cold inside my car. Tree huggers are a lost cause

 

[Defiant]

Oh, lookit. Politics.

Clank.