And putting the compressor inside the car will actually generate heat as the compressor works.
The compressor unit needs to be outside of the cabin. The boot perhaps?
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"I'm imagining something you plug into the cigar lighter and then connect some hoses through the window."
I'm loving your imagination - pity the laws of physics are not on your side! Where would the hoses go, anyway?
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Portable aircon units inside buildings are based on elecrical power and a pipe to the outside. Often you can have your window open 6" and the pipe goes into a plastic fitting that blocks the rest of the window gap.
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Reminds me of a question we used to sometimes ask candidate graduate engineers;
In a well insulated room is a fridge, there's nothing in the fridge, there's nothing else and nobody in the room. The fridge door is open. When the electricity supply to the fridge is turned on, what happens to the tmperature of the room?
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love the photo, boot lid must vibrate a good'n. Trouble with the uk is park it anywhere & the jenny will be gone in seconds.
At least he doesn't have to worry about the AC going off when the throttle is fully open!
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what happens to the tmperature of the room?
Yes, the baleful effect of many air conditioners on the ambient temperature (and air quality actually) used to be hideously apparent in New York City on an August afternoon... In my room once in a cheap Lagos hotel, the air conditioner had been jammed in a jagged hole in the outside wall, with huge gaps all round it. Sucked a lot of its own exhaust back into the room...
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Isn't it a bit worrying that you need to ask graduate engineers that question?
It is possible to get air-con retrofitted, my dad had it done to a Honda some years ago. Doubt that it's possible with a Passat, though, and for about £500 you could sell the car and buy another with A/C anyway.
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>>Isn't it a bit worrying that you need to ask graduate engineers that question?
I haven't done any interviewing for a while, but, the thing that used to amaze me was the number of graduates with good degrees from proper universities who would fall over on the most basic question. It was quite shocking.
As we were interviewing for consultancy roles, we were as interested in the way that candidates reasoned and argued their case as we were in them getting somewhere near the right answer. We were, after all, looking for people who wouldn't be an embarassment (either way, too geeky or too dim!) when put in front of a client.
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