A short HVAC advice video (creator: Derek Cole) explaining that air-conditioning systems do not consume refrigerant; if a unit needs refrigerant every year it indicates a leak. The speaker uses a body/blood analogy to argue owners should repair the leak (fix the root cause) rather than repeatedly adding refrigerant (a temporary "band-aid") and spending money on annual recharges.
It is not normal for your unit to take refrigerant every single year. The unit is not using up refrigerant. It uses refrigerant. Kind of reference this as your body. If your body starts spewing blood out of your arm, okay, we shouldn't be spilling blood. I shouldn't need more blood unless I'm losing blood, right? So I certainly need more refrigerant unless I'm losing refrigerant. If you're leaking refrigerant and you need refrigerant in your system, it's because you're having a leak and you need to fix a leak so you stop spending the money every single year on one or two pounds of R22 or R410 a, whatever the refrigerant is. That way you have a sealed system. It should not be leaking out again. You don't need to recharge that unit every single year. It uses refrigerant, but it doesn't use up the refrigerant and need more. Obviously, if it's running low in the refrigerant, kind of like your body running low on blood, you're going to have a problem, right? So if you don't have enough blood, you'll have a problem. If your system doesn't have enough refrigerant, you, you will also have problems. So get the leak fixed. See what the cause is. Instead of putting band aids on it, which is adding more refrigerant, actually go to the cause and stop it.
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