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This SAE Standard applies to refrigerant vapor compression systems that provide cooling and/or heating for passenger cars, light trucks and commercial vehicles (on and off road) that use automotive type mobile air conditioning [MAC] systems. Large trucks, buses and other vehicles that do not use typical automotive a/c systems or use refrigerants not listed in this document are not covered by this standard. This standard covers any vehicle with a MAC system using a belt or electric motor driven compressor. This document provides standards for design, assembly, test and service of MAC systems to minimize environmental, health and safety impacts. Also included are cautionary statements for the service industry to alert technicians to the inadvisability and possible health or safety effects associated with venting refrigerant during service. It is not intended to restrict the use, or further development, of other types of refrigeration systems for mobile air conditioning applications.

The scope of this SAE Recommended Practice is to establish uniform test procedures and minimum performance requirements for passenger car windshield defrosting systems. It is limited to tests that can be conducted on uniform test equipment in commercially available laboratory facilities. The test procedures and minimum performance requirements outlined herein reflect the extensive knowledge and experience which automotive engineers have accumulated in development of windshield defrosting practices. Current engineering practice prescribes that for laboratory evaluation of defroster systems an ice coating, rather than frost, be applied to the windshield to provide more uniform and repeatable test results, frost formation of uniform density being the more difficult to accomplish. The time element for ice removal, therefore, is longer than that required to remove frost, which is the prime purpose of the defroster system.

This SAE Recommended Practice provides a test procedure and performance guideline for evaluating passenger car windshield defrosting systems. It is limited to results of tests that can be conducted on uniform test equipment in commercially available laboratory facilities. The current engineering practice prescribes that for laboratory evaluation of defroster systems, a known quantity of water shall be sprayed on the windshield to form an ice coating and then melted by the defroster under specific vehicle operating conditions. The procedure provides uniform and repeatable laboratory test results, even though under actual conditions such a coating would be removed by scraping before driving the vehicle. The performance obtained, therefore, does not directly relate to actual driving conditions, but serves as a laboratory performance indicator for comparing test results within or between systems.

The scope of this SAE Recommended Practice is to establish uniform test procedures and minimum performance requirements for passenger car windshield defrosting systems. It is limited to tests that can be conducted on uniform test equipment in commercially available laboratory facilities. The test procedures and minimum performance requirements outlined herein reflect the extensive knowledge and experience which automotive engineers have accumulated in development of windshield defrosting practices. Current engineering practice prescribes that for laboratory evaluation of defroster systems an ice coating, rather than frost, be applied to the windshield to provide more uniform and repeatable test results, frost formation of uniform density being the more difficult to accomplish. The time element for ice removal, therefore, is longer than that required to remove frost, which is the prime purpose of the defroster system.

The scope of this SAE Recommended Practice is to establish uniform test procedures and minimum performance requirements for passenger car windshield defrosting systems. It is limited to tests that can be conducted on uniform test equipment in commercially available laboratory facilities. The test procedures and minimum performance requirements, outlined in this recommended practice, are based on currently available engineering data. It is the intent that all portions of the recommended practice will be periodically reviewed and revised as additional knowledge regarding vehicle defroster performance is developed.