Techs vs. Engineers w/ Bill Spohn from TruTech

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

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4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Bill Spohn from TruTech Tools about how TruTech Tools got its start and some of the ways that techs and engineers approach problems differently.

Bill Spohn is a majority owner of TruTech Tools who became invested in the HVAC field in the 1990s. The beginning of TruTech Tools was a milestone in Bill's professional journey. After working at Superior Valve for a few years, Bill moved to Testo. While Americanizing many of Testo's products, Bill Spohn met Jim Bergmann. A German Testo employee advised Jim Bergmann's father to set up an online store for the Testo products and other HVAC tools. That website later became known as TruTech Tools. Jim, his father, and Bill were at the forefront of the new company. Bill contributed to the development of TruTech Tools through his product and marketing knowledge. Since then, TruTech Tools has grown a lot more. Jim Bergmann has since moved on, but he is still friends with Bill and remains a major figure in the instrument development and testing part of the HVAC industry.

Bill considers himself to be an engineer. Unlike technicians, engineers have a deeper level of expertise in the development of tools and products. However, technicians have greater field knowledge and provide valuable feedback for engineers like Bill. Engineers know the math behind their products and how to use those products. However, technicians provide the practical element to tool development. Both technicians and engineers must be humble to work well together, exchange ideas, and technologically progress.

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0:00.0	This episode of the HVAC School podcast is made possible by generous support from
0:07.2	Carrier and Testo. And I've been having a lot of fun actually. I really like testing out new tools and I've been
0:14.5	playing around with the test 605-I induct hygrometers and they may be my
0:20.1	favorite tool I've ever been able to play with because they allow you to do something, namely capacity
0:24.7	calculation, that I never knew would be that easy to do.
0:29.6	So between the 605 I's and my carrier infinity system that actually gives me the real-time
0:35.2	CFM right on the display, it's actually so easy to calculate capacity that it feels a
0:41.0	little bit like cheating. So I need to make it more difficult, more confusing.
0:44.4	Make your tools more confusing, TESTO. Anyway, thank you to TESTM carrier for supporting technician
0:49.3	training and the HVAC School Podcast. Stand to your feet, unless you're driving and welcome the man who insists on wearing his duck knife on his belt
1:04.8	even though he hasn't actually cut a sheet of board since 2008.
1:08.6	Brian Orr.
1:10.6	Once again, false Joel Sharpton. I cut a little bit of board when I built my own house.
1:16.0	I mean, when I say a little bit, I mean like a very little bit.
1:19.0	Anyway, I'm Brian with the HVEC School Podcast. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.
1:23.7	I appreciate you as they say here in the South.
1:25.9	Periate you buddy. Today I have a very special guest, my friend Bill Spone, and I actually,
1:32.0	you know, I do really legitimately consider Bill and Jim Bergman to be friends of mine even though I haven't been able to spend that much time with him.
1:40.0	I've met them both in person and they're both just salt of the earth human beings,
1:43.4	just really, really good guys and the type of people who I want to be able to associate myself
1:48.7	with. So, you know what they say? When you're socially awkward and have a hard time making friends have them on
1:53.7	your podcast so I sat down and talked with Bill Spone from True Tech tools actually
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