[Zepguy]

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated!

The next day the compressor was no longer engaging. So I checked and it showed no pressure in the system. Of course as soon as I put a little refrigerant in it started up again. After a half can and the gauge didn't move from the bottom of the green level, I started questioning my gauge and stopped afraid I'd overfill. Thought I'd hop in and see if there was any cool air since the compressor was running and, nope. This really threw me for a loop because at the time I was thinking ok, there's a half a can in there, it shows in the green on my gauge and it still isn't cooling. In hindsight it was obviously blowing right out the high side port almost as fast as I put it in. As brcidd said, must have been only about 5% retained in the system to keep the compressor going because there sure wasn't enough to cool the air even a little.

I gave up after the heat and sweat on Thursday (95 with even higher temps forecast for Friday) and dropped the car off to be repaired yesterday morning expecting a $500+ bill. Cause: Blown seal on the high side port. Cheap and easy fix. Had them replace both high and low and I'm good to go for a little over $100. Probably could have done it myself once I knew but I just wanted it fixed.

TLDR; Cause was a blown seal on the high side port.

Thanks again for taking time to respond.

Cool again in AZ