Bonus - Impressions From a Week as a Tech from a College Intern w/ Bill Spohn Jr.

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Training, Careers, Airconditioning, Self-improvement, Hvac, Business, Education, Refrigeration, Heating, Ac, Apprenticeship

4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Bill Spohn Jr. is a college intern working towards his business degree, but he took a week to see what it is like to work as an HVAC tech. He shares his impressions on this podcast. Bill is the son of Bill Spohn and has been a college intern working with TruTech Tools. However, he has just gotten his first real dose of the HVAC contractor experience in the full swing of summer.

Bill started off by riding with a Kalos residential tech, Tyler, who had seven calls that day, mostly for PMs; they worked from 8:15 to 9:00 PM. Bill was impressed with the professionalism of Tyler and how well he communicated with customers. The second day, Bill got to do an install, which was a physically taxing task (partially due to the Florida heat). He put in a new drain pipe, new copper tubing, a new air handler, and some new pieces of ductwork. Bill also spent a day with Jeff, where he did a lot of preventive maintenance.

As with many people, Bill learned a lot about the importance of refrigerant and proper charge. He also found SEER ratings and other efficiency measures fascinating.

Bill went into his experience with the idea to identify "pain points" for techs and suggest improvements to current tools and technology. Now that Bill knows what's important to techs in the industry, he can bring ideas to TruTech Tools to make the techs' lives easier and address the "pain points" that many contractors have to deal with.

Bill and Bryan also discuss:

Tyler's past
Working on trailers or mobile homes
Organization (or lack thereof) in vans and tool bags
Combined analog and digital gauges
Inventory tracking systems
Possible Testo 115i temperature clamp improvements

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0:16.0	Hey, this is Brian War with the HVAC School Podcast doing things a little out of order today.
0:25.0	Today is a bonus episode and this episode is brought to you by Parker Sportlin and
0:29.7	the Zoomlock tool like you just heard as well as testo carrier and rector seal and we've
0:36.7	been doing a lot of a lot of tests with all these products I mean carrier I've
0:39.7	been working with for years and I've actually used rector sealed and testo
0:42.3	products for many years but I'm learning a lot more about the in-depth kind of details of a lot of these products and one product that I want to mention quickly because not on this episode but on the next episode which is going to come either later
0:54.4	today or tomorrow which is part two of Jim Bergman's testing airflow
0:58.2	measuring airflow episode is the testo 420 flowhood I've used quite a few
1:02.4	flow hoods over the years actually one of the first
1:04.6	purchases I made when I started kailos to almost 12 years ago now was to buy an
1:09.3	alnour flow hood which has served me well but the test testo 420 is great because it actually has some flow
1:13.7	straighteners right in the actual flow hood itself. It's an inexpensive hood compared to some of the
1:18.9	competitive products and it's a very accurate and light hood. So it's a hood that you can maneuver into tight spots.
1:24.1	It's very light.
1:25.3	The readout's great.
1:26.1	It has a Bluetooth app that functions well.
1:28.3	Once you kind of figure out how to use it, which I did a video on that
1:30.8	at the HVAC school YouTube channel, if you want to take a look at that but that is the
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