And of course, these periodic checkups are not free, but substantially raise the operating costs that the EPA did not care to figure in when they required the manufacturer to calculate costs for purposes of that informative performance notice they must attach to every unit.
Moreover, there is no accounting in this for the environmental burden of having a service technician drive his truck to every customer’s house twice a year for this. Over the life-cycle of the equipment all these issue add up in oh so many ways.
Yet another way the enviro-libs are saving the planet using bureaucrats with guns.
13 lbs seems like too large a quantity for 1 1/2 ton unit. I think a 3 ton sys only uses 7.5 lbs.