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Shelby Breger

Company name: Conduit Tech

Position: Co-Founder

Shelby is a Co-Founder of Conduit Tech, a platform building home evaluation and sales tools for residential HVAC contractors. Conduit\’s first solution is a mobile app that produces high-quality room-by-room HVAC load calculations, 2D floor plans, and 3D models of homes with detailed data on building materials integrated with sleek, customized sales materials in 15 minutes or less.

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3-Phase Motors—The Basics

Fundamentally, three-phase, alternating current (AC) motors are about as simple as a motor gets. The power company produces three phases by spinning magnets. Then, on the other end, we produce electromagnets that spin the motor according to the same 60 cycles per second frequency (60hz). All three phases are 120 degrees out of phase from […]

A Tale of Two Latents

When the quiz or the teacher asks what “latent” heat is, there is generally some reference to it being hidden heat, which is what the word “latent” means. We then learn that it is heat energy transferred that results in a change of state rather than a temperature change. Later on, we hear a lot […]

Solving Subcool

I teamed up with Ty Branaman to design an intuitive way for techs to solve some of the “what should it be?” questions in the HVAC field. The topic for this sheet is subcooling. Subcooling is a measurement of the temperature DECREASE of a liquid below its saturation (mixed liquid/vapor) temperature at a given pressure. […]

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What is Full Stack HVAC? w/ Ben Reed, Brian Feenie, Shelby Breger

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Manual J in 15 Minutes?

Shelby Breger, co-founder of Conduit Tech, joins Bryan Orr on the HVAC School Podcast to discuss her company's innovative lidar-enabled design and sales software tool for HVAC contractors. Conduit Tech's software utilizes lidar sensors in iPads and iPhones to scan homes and create 3D models and 2D floor plans. It overlays load calculations factoring […]

Women in HVAC (Live Rebroadcast)

This podcast brought together several women working in the HVAC industry to discuss their experiences and offer advice. The conversation focused on the positives of working in HVAC as a woman, the importance of community, and the resources available. The women talked extensively about how welcoming and supportive the HVAC community, and particularly HVAC […]