Symposium - What Good Techs Do Different W/ Data

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Discover what separates elite HVAC technicians from average ones in this eye-opening session from the 7th Annual HVAC/R Training Symposium. Shelby Breger, co-founder of Conduit Tech, and Jim Bergmann, President of measureQuick, reveal what good HVAC techs do differently with data and how they leverage data to transform their diagnostics, commissioning, and service work.

What You'll Learn:

Why top technicians deploy all 9 probes on every air conditioning system
How proper data collection reduces callbacks by 24% or more
The critical measurements most techs are missing (charge and airflow problems)
Why benchmarking systems creates invaluable assets for your company
How to identify system faults that gauges and temperature splits alone can't reveal
The relationship between sensible capacity, latent capacity, and total system performance
Why right-sizing equipment differently matters more than ever with modern high-efficiency systems

Jim shares insights from analyzing 270+ data points per service call and explains how HVAC professionals can use tools like measureQuick to eliminate uncertainty from their work. Learn why contractors doing Manual J load calculations are downsizing equipment 1-3 tons and becoming more profitable in the process.

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0:00.0	Hello, Governor. This is the HVAC School podcast. I'm Brian, and this is a episode that came out of the
0:11.1	symposium. So the live podcast pavilion area of our symposium. I want to say our symposium. It really is
0:18.6	ours, the whole communities. And this was the
0:21.4	2026 version held here in O'Cohy, Florida, the seventh annual. And this episode is what the best
0:27.8	techs do with data with Shelby Breger from Conduit and my good buddy Jim Bergman from MeasureQuick,
0:34.6	talking all about data and how techs use it to do their jobs better.
0:39.3	But before we do that, we want to thank our great sponsors.
0:43.5	Carrier and Carrier.com. Carrier has been a long-term sponsor of the podcast.
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