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Am I mis-reading the meaning of the light on the AC Control on a 2014?

Suppose I have the temp set at 68 and AUTO. The snowflake indicator is on, as is the distribution mode in effect. I decide to press the snowflake button, and it turns off.

Cold air continues to blow...and it's not the residual cold air left in the ducts. AC continues to blow when with the AC light now off....more than what might be considered a time-delayed slow shutoff.

Am I incorrect to assume the light is basically in series with the AC compressor? ON means compressor engaged; OFF means compressor not engaged.

I find compressor stays engaged after I commanded it to be OFF.

Does it do the same thing when it's not on auto?

look at the right on the screen , it will show auto , hit the button tell it cycles off

Did you ever figure this out, mine does same thing. Auto not engaged and snowflake not on and it continues to blow cold until I shut whole thing off and then back on (without AC). ??

update. I checked while parked with ac button on and then off and then compressor seems to respond as far as being fully engaged or not.
This is the strangest system I had. Other systems when you shut the Snowflake the air instantly looses the cold feel.

If you have it to defrost or split defrost/feet, the A/C is always on to remove moisture except below freezing temps (which is useless/a waste 98% of the time). However, I also find it difficult to turn off A/C. And anytime I turn the system off and back on, the A/C is always turned back on no matter what the previous setting was.

I think it's a conspiracy to wear out A/C components faster to force owners to get them fixed more often.

LOL, depending on whether I turn system on by pushing center button OR turning it (fan speed), one put s AC on and the other doesn't ..
Can t remember which one. So I m not the only one fighting this system.

On our '12, the compressor turns off when I press the 'snowflake' button, but I can't tell you much about any other settings. Heck, I was surprised about the 'zone' settings just the other day. I was charging the A/C system and had a thermometer in the right center dash vent, and it kept reading 75-deg F while the air coming out the far left vent was pretty cold.

Anyway, on our '02 GMC 2500HD, if we have the recirculate button pressed, the compressor runs, even though the 'A/C' (snowflake) button is not. The light on the recirc button is on, but not on the A/C button. Just a data point, not sure if the Caprice HVAC behaves that way, or not.

I checked the compressor and many would be surprised to note (as some have already stated). that even with the snowflake OFF the following conditions put the compressor ON.
Recirculate button ON, Settings where TOP (defrost) vent flow is ON. The snowflake does not lite up but compressor fully engaged , FYI.

The compressor does not turn off on my 16 when the Snowflake light is manually turned off until I cycle the fan off/on. I figure it's a bug.