On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 6:33:42 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:14:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

This was an earlier email, they sent:
"Sorry I double checked Matt's paperwork and I realized he had written a 4 not a 2.

He misread the number! That sounds like a lie to me, the kind of
thing they say when they get caught. (But it still doesn't mean
they're saying the truth now, only that they're no longer claiming you
need 8 pounds) Sure, someone can misread a number (How coudl a 4 look
like a 2?) but in context, I don't bellieve them.

+1

And at least now we know how the system could be running.
With 8lbs missing, that seemed impossible. IDK if having
1/2 a charge is enough to run it for sure either, but at
least that seems like it could.




The system fully charged takes 8 lbs of refrigerant, it should not require that much to re-charge."

So how much would it take, and where do 4 and 2 come in?

Maybe Stormin can help us out here. I'm not sure that you can
tell for sure how many pounds it will take based on readings.
Seems more likely to me you can only ballpark it.

Since it looks like it may just be low on refrigerant, I'd get
a different company out to check it out, look for leaks, and if
the leak is just at the valves, or they can't find a leak, then
top it off. At the least, he'd likely get another year out of
it and see what happens. If you get another year, possibly more
for maybe $250, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.