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HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Special Episode - The Launch of an HVAC Industry Changing App w/ Jim Bergmann

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

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

4.8985 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Jim Bergmann talks about the launch date of the measureQuick (MQ) app, what it will do, why he made it, who it is for, and why it's different than anything else that came before.

MeasureQuick is a universal measurement platform that incorporates Bluetooth to display, store, and interpret measurements. The initial release focuses heavily on air conditioning, but its goal is to assist with combustion analysis and refrigeration readings. It is a troubleshooting assistant that saves time and helps technicians make sense of their readings. It combines the air side, refrigerant side, and electrical side in a single Bluetooth-connected technology.

MeasureQuick helps technicians understand if the conditions are ideal for testing or if the system performs optimally while testing. The app does not automate the diagnostic process, but it is a diagnostic aid to help reduce callbacks. MeasureQuick contains both free and paid components for users, and it is backed by Testo and other sponsors.

Jim Bergmann's app brings a technological appeal to the tech-savvy rising generation. MeasureQuick encourages curious technicians to understand their readings and diagnostic criteria. The goal is to modernize the HVAC industry while bringing the knowledge base of the older generation to the newer generation. Jim Bergmann's goal is to make the app TEACH its users the best practices and principles of the industry; he aims to make information accessible to technicians with varied learning preferences. This app is especially useful for those who are not avid readers.

Of course, hacks who don't care about learning the correct way will always exist. However, MeasureQuick will hopefully bring accountability to our industry through education.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of the HVAC School podcast is made possible by generous support from

0:10.2

Testo, Carrier, and Rector Seal.

0:13.2

This episode is kind of a unique episode.

0:20.6

So we're not gonna do the typical intro and all that kind of stuff. This is kind of the grand

0:26.6

unveiling, at least in the podcast world, of the Measure Quick app, the app that Jim Bergman's been talking about for a while.

0:33.4

We talk some specifics.

0:34.7

There's some new things that have occurred here with the Measure Quick app,

0:39.4

and Jim's going to announce those here and also going to announce the launch date for Measure Quick.

0:45.1

So here we go, Jim Bergman and the Measure Quick app.

0:48.2

So we've got Jim Bergman on the line and Jim sounds a little, just talking to him, he sounds a little stressed out or tired one or the other.

0:56.0

Well I'm not stressed out or tired I just uh I'm getting all the the

1:00.5

diagnostics built in for Measure Quick.

1:04.0

It is very tedious when you start looking at all the individual problems

1:09.0

that can occur in an air conditioning system

1:12.0

individually and simultaneously.

1:15.0

Then you look at the problems that cause other problems that are just symptoms of issues like

1:20.2

dirty evaporator, dirty condenser, low airflow, things that mimic other things.

1:25.0

And then you got to also include things like you didn't attach your probe or you put the liquid line probe on the discharge line on a rooftop unit, you know,

1:33.7

little things like that. So it's a very tedious. So my brain needed a break and

1:39.2

so this is a good timing. It seems to me that about 20% of the time when a junior tech calls me, it's like,

1:46.0

just make sure that your hose is properly depressing the strader.

1:50.0

That happens more than you might think. favorite call is one where hey what normally happens on a Y C. D. 060 L. A B? Well what have you checked so far? Oh, oh, nothing. I'm just going across the roof and I had before I got there I just thought I'd call and ask you.

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