Bonus - What you missed at AHR w/ Bill Spohn

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

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

4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bill and Bryan recap the 2018 AHR conference with what they learned and what you can expect to see in the HVAC/R trade in the next year. There were 2100 exhibitors who gave demonstrations and discussed products. AHR shows the real scope of the HVAC/R industry, and it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the trade and do some networking.

At the AHR conference, there were some demonstrations that may indicate a paradigm shift in the industry's best practices. For example, the AccuTools booth projected the rate of evacuation through three hoses of different diameters, including the mythical 1" hose. The visual representation of those evacuation rates showed the trend towards faster evacuations with larger hoses. More tool manufacturers may jump on the trend to make larger hoses that assist technicians and lead to better evacuations.

The technology on display at AHR also testified to the fact that many more tools are integrating with our cell phones, including the CPS IAQ monitor. AHR also had a treasure trove of new technologies, including BluVac's Bluetooth-connected combustion analyzer. BluVac's branding is very science and engineering-focused, and they also fine-tune their technology to support techs in the field. Overall, AHR was a fantastic forum for people to spread information about products. In turn, Bill and Bryan had some of their product research validated and built upon.

Bill and Bryan also discuss:

Attaching micron gauges at the pump
Professional branding
Industry education
Surge suppressors and melting issues
The time Bill called Bryan out
Engagement with HVAC educational materials
Testo precision manometers and additional heads
Filling the HVAC/R skills gap
Increasing your value as an individual technician in this industry
Building performance in the HVAC industry
Internet of things (IoT)
The commercial HVAC market

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0:00.0	This special bonus episode of the HVAC school podcast is made possible because of support from our sponsors
0:10.0	Rector Seal, Carrier, and Mitsubishi Comfort.
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0:23.6	Discover how Zoomlock can help you be more efficient and productive.
0:27.2	Visit zoomlock.com for more information. And now your host, the man who once used too much coil cleaner and took the coding right off a Lennox coil.
0:44.0	Brian Orr.
0:45.0	In general, when you're
0:48.0	cleaning anything really, you want to use enough cleaner to do the job.
0:52.0	Obviously sometimes, you know sometimes cleaners are necessary.
0:54.1	Chemicals are occasionally necessary. But don't use chemicals if you don't need to. I
0:58.4	learned that the hard way, especially when washing that one particular conundrum
1:03.2	coil and the black stuff just kept coming off and I thought I was doing a really
1:06.1	good job and only to find out that it looked really bad when I was done.
1:10.5	So yes, this is the HVAC school podcast, the podcast that helps you remember things that you might have forgotten along the way, as well as remember some things you forgot to know in the first place.
1:19.0	And this episode is a bonus episode. It's not really a training episode, although we do actually talk a lot about the
1:25.6	some things that are coming up in the industry and so you will get some education out of it for sure.
1:29.7	This is a conversation between me and Bill Spone, Bill Spone being my good friend from TrueTech Tools.
1:34.7	As always, you can get a great discount
1:38.2	by using our offer code, Get Schooled at True Tech Tools.
1:41.0	But we don't really talk about True Tech Tools or
1:44.0	HVAC school. We talk about the AHR conference and all the things that we took away from
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