occ
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I have a friend who just picked up his LEAF yesterday. He questioned/argued with the sales rep there about the LEAF AC compressor. The question was "does the AC compressor works with the heater to keep the cabin to the temperature you selected, or does it just cycle the AC compressor for that?"
Common sense says if you have "AC" on, then the heater has nothing to do with cabin temperature. The sale guy say that if you use AC, to not set the temperature too high (say 78F) because both AC and heater will be used, causing reduced efficiency.
There's a thread that indicates that the heater does play a roll during de-frost, (actually the other way around: the AC compressor plays a roll during window de-frost, which primarily use the Heater so both will be on).
So any truth in what the sales guy said?
Maybe the right question would be: if "AC" is ON...will setting the temperature high cause both to AC and Heater to be used?
Common sense says if you have "AC" on, then the heater has nothing to do with cabin temperature. The sale guy say that if you use AC, to not set the temperature too high (say 78F) because both AC and heater will be used, causing reduced efficiency.
There's a thread that indicates that the heater does play a roll during de-frost, (actually the other way around: the AC compressor plays a roll during window de-frost, which primarily use the Heater so both will be on).
So any truth in what the sales guy said?
Maybe the right question would be: if "AC" is ON...will setting the temperature high cause both to AC and Heater to be used?