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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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Michael Faraday: Patron Saint of HVAC Technicians

Who was Michael Faraday—besides the guy we named the capacitor after? Well, actually, we named the measure of capacitance after him (the farad), but let’s not get all caught up in semantics. Faraday was a scientist who lived from 1791 to 1867. He was an experimental scientist who had little to no formal education but […]

Blower Fan Watt Draw Considerations for ECMs

I'd like to give special thanks to Steve Rogers from TEC for helping write this tech tip and sharing some helpful visuals. Thanks, Steve! ACCA Standard 310 introduced a grading protocol for HVAC systems. While HVAC practitioners won’t be the ones carrying out the tasks laid out in Standard 310, energy raters will conduct them […]

Tool Selection: Electrical Meters

I'd like to give a special thanks to Tony Gonzalez from Fieldpiece for providing technical guidance about the SC680's power measurement capabilities, as well as VAC and AAC measurements on ECMs. We’ve talked through specifications, applications, and features for a few tools, but none of them have been quite as hardcore as electrical meters. Like […]

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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 […]