Have You Given Your Fridge A Tune-up Lately?

[eronie]

The guy that did the last vid was very good to bad hey killed himself. Loved all of his vids.

 

[sudsmaster]

I understand the basic concept: compress a gas (like freon) into a liquid and it emits heat. Let the gas expand and it absorbs heat.  It's just the nomenclature and positioning of these components that gets a bit mysterious, especially in fridges that conceal most of the working parts.

 

 

[DADoES]

 
Evaporator absorbs heat from the area to be cooled.  Condensor disperses heat out of that area.

A heat pump that can heat a building swaps the functioning (refrigerant flow) via the reversing valve.

All air conditioners that can only cool a building are heat pumps, they just aren't commonly called as such.