For an air conditioner to work correctly, it must have the right amount of Freon… not too little and not too much. If fact, with some vehicles the difference between too little and too much is as little as one ounce!
Freon is measured by weight. That is a little confusing because Freon is a gas. We'll, it is and it isn't. Under pressure Freon will turn into a liquid (condense). (That‘s why air conditioners have compressors.) When the pressure is removed, the liquid will actually boil and turn into a gas. It's the boiling (turning into a gas) that causes the cooling. The reason is a story for another day.
Now the problem is that we can look up the specification and find out how much Freon belongs in an air conditioning system but there is no way to know how much Freon is currently in the system. If we don't know how much Freon is in the system, we have no way of knowing how much Freon to add.
Of course you can buy one of those inexpensive air conditioning charging kits at the parts store, add some Freon and see what happens. But if you add too much Freon, liquid Freon can be sucked into the compressor. The moment liquid Freon is sucked into the compressor, bye-bye compressor and bye-bye many hundreds of dollars!
There is only one safe, correct way to add Freon to you air conditioner. The Freon must be removed by pumping it under pressure into a special container. By weighing the container before and after, we'll know how much Freon was removed and you get credit for it. Next, we put a vacuum pump on the system and suck it down to a very strong vacuum. There are technical reasons that this MUST be done which I won't get into here but if you‘re interested, you can Google it. With the system totally empty, the exact amount of Freon can be pumped into the system. This eliminates all of the risk and insures that the air conditioning will produce the maximum amount of cold air.
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