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Eric Fitz

Company name: Amply

Position: Co-founder & Co-CEO

Eric Fitz is co-founder, co-CEO, and CTO of Amply Energy, a company that makes game-changing software for heat pump installers. Amply is one of nine software products that is ACCA Powered by Manual J. Eric holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a BE in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, and a BA in Physics from Colby College. He is also Design for Six Sigma certified.

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Condensate Switch Controversy

Condensate overflow prevention devices, or float switches, as they are often called, are such simple devices that you wouldn’t think there would be much room for controversy. In my experience, there are few areas of the trade where technician and installer preferences and opinions vary greatly. Let’s start with some float switch basics. Float (condensate) […]

Does Mass or Volume Move Heat?

I once heard someone say, and I have since repeated many times, that BTUs ride on the back of cubic feet of air (CFM). As I’ve learned more, I’ve come to the conclusion that the weight or mass of the air passing over the evaporator coil is far more important to understand both in terms […]

Avoiding and Eliminating Callbacks

Callbacks are horrible. They kill the trade from every possible angle. They destroy customer satisfaction and reduce technician morale by causing long hours, resulting in unprofitability for companies and overall less earning opportunity for everyone. Possibly worse of all, callbacks tell customers that you are no better than their cousin the maintenance man, or worse, […]