Refrigerant is absolutely essential to every air conditioner’s ability to move heat around and cool your home in Yulee, FL. However, refrigerant leaks may both undermine your AC system’s performance and directly damage the system itself. Here are some ways in which low refrigerant levels may harm your AC system:
Lower Performance
To cool your home, your AC system must send refrigerant to its evaporator coil, where it will absorb heat from your indoor air and evaporate. Then, the refrigerant must go to the system’s compressor, which will heat and pressurize it even further. Finally, the substance must go to the condenser coil, come into contact with cooler air, condense, and release its heat outdoors.
The speed and effectiveness with which your AC system performs these actions depend on the system’s refrigerant level. We call an air conditioner’s refrigerant level its charge. If it’s low, your system will perform poorly and work harder than necessary to transfer a given quantity of heat.
Damage to the Compressor
Less refrigerant means that there will be less pressure in your AC system. However, manufacturers make compressors with specific pressure levels in mind. Running your air conditioner with the wrong pressure level can strain the compressor or even cause it to fail.
Total Breakdown
The sorts of damage that we’ve been referring to above, whether to your compressor in particular or to the AC system in general, may ultimately cause your air conditioner to completely break down. If this happens, you’ll need to pay for an AC replacement sooner than expected. This can be quite a major expense.
Refrigerant leaks are major issues for your air conditioner. The substance itself is hazardous to breathe, and an insufficient quantity of it in your AC system can cause serious problems. If you live around Yulee, FL, call Ed's Comfort Solutions today and request AC repair services to deal with this problem.
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