HVAC School welcomes back Jim Bergmann to share his know-how on how to use the MeasureQuick App. This training video was streamed live on the HVAC School FB page on 8/15/18.
Some recent changes to the app include putting the R-410A option at the front due to its prevalence in the industry and better integration with Fieldpiece JobLink probes. At the time of this live stream, MeasureQuick had already supported the iManifold, Testo instruments, Redfish instruments, and TEC’s duct tester and blower doors. It was beginning to support more instruments. At the time of this live stream, MeasureQuick did not support iManifold manometers for static pressure readings. The Toolbox allows you to manage your connected instruments within MeasureQuick.
The home screen shows a basic profile consisting of refrigerant information and some gauges that show how well your measurements stack up to how the equipment is supposed to be running (based on educated guesses with information on SEER, elevation, climate, metering device, and airflow). If you see symptoms of a problem, MeasureQuick will give a report as to what might be contributing to those symptoms.
MeasureQuick displays ranges of acceptable, too low, and too high values based on targets. These ranges exist for superheat, subcooling, and many more common readings to help with troubleshooting. If you click on those gauges with ranges, you can have access to suggestions and just-in-time education to help you troubleshoot the system (with collaboration from HVAC School). MeasureQuick can also give you data about the weather and home temperature, and it relies on user input and measurement instrument quality for confidence scores based on the test results.
You can also use MeasureQuick for projects. When you select a general system test under mQ projects, you can choose to start a new project to save your data collections related to a particular project. You can also add some notes about a job site, and you can add these to a report if they’re part of a project. Projects can be set as active or inactive, and MeasureQuick saves the location of the project site.
When you set up a system profile, you can take photos and add make/model, filter, and installation information. You can also add extended performance data if you have that information on hand (rather than just relying on nominal tonnages for capacity estimates). Electrical information, including motor type and phase, is also required for determining the power factor. Adding that information and normalizing a system allows MeasureQuick to be able to remember load conditions and form predictions to help gauge performance.
Results of performance calculations are displayed in the following categories: stability, capacity calculations, air-side performance, energy efficiency, and additional information. MeasureQuick also differentiates between standard and actual CFM to account for mass flow rate under the air-side performance ratings.
The Probe Manager menu shows the connected test instruments with colors that indicate when new data comes in and the time elapsed since a performance reading was recorded with that instrument.
MeasureQuick also has an education section where you can access a bunch of HVAC education resources, including information on non-invasive testing (which Jim believes is the future of testing).
There is no limit to the amount of MeasureQuick accounts a company can have. MeasureQuick also doesn’t sell data or use it for advertising purposes; the only thing MeasureQuick uses data for is feedback to determine how to keep making MeasureQuick better.
The future of MeasureQuick will likely have gas heating and heat pump profiles. (Maybe some users can help with the development of geothermal heat pump profiles.) There have also been efforts to make MeasureQuick work for commercial refrigeration technicians and measure duct leakage with Fieldpiece probes.
Jim also covers:
– SEER ratings and measurements over time
– Navigation and pop-ups
– Saving data
– Pulling in data from AHRI with model numbers and barcodes
– Cloud storage and premium features
– Generating reports
– Benchmarking systems
– Non-invasive testing
– MeasureQuick development roadmaps and user requests
– Using instruments from dissimilar brands
– Static vs. live feeds
– Future test instrument compatibility
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Thank you very Much for your Training Video Mr Bergmann And Mr Orr.
I am making the investment and am excited/cant wait to start. As with any tech, I will start with MY HOUSE….LOL. Thanks Jim B.
Will you guys integrate the new testo equipment into measure quick
The video picture quality sucks
I think I will stick to my manual manufold gauges
I want to thank you for your dedication to this project. Amazing information very appropriated. I am using the fieldpiece kit mostly for Refrigetation application
Really enjoying learning this app so far. I do not see an option for water source heat pumps, perhaps I'm missing this. If not is there any plans for adding them in the future? Thanks for all the hard work developing this!
Great job and video
Amazing stuff! Thank you.
Question, say I have my probes hooked up and everything is running and I get a alert flag for fair flow issue, say I fix the issue while continuing to test the system, will the app remove that air flow flag for me or do I still have to remove it manually? And say I do remove it manually because I fixed an issue but then the issue returns, will the all give me the same flag back up or once I clear something that specific thing won’t come back up as a flag again unless I disconnect and reconnect my probes? Thank you!!
This tool works for Commercial Refrigeration?
By the time u diagnosed the system I'm already done with the next call.
Thank you, great video and very helpful, one problem is even at 1080 resolution setting the video quality is hard to see even on a desktop PC.
Hey Jim, I was just testing a 16 seer system today and i noticed for its CTOA its categorized at 20f. Should it not be 15f and categorized with the 17+ seer ultra high efficiency instead? On Brian's website hvacschool he stated 13-15 is 20 ctoa and 16+ is 15ctoa.
im having issue with sharing date between my testo 557 and MQ. not sure why. i can no longer share my 557 data to MQ since i got a new iphone xr. i used to able to do it on my iphone 8.
This app loses its crap just about when you try anything with medium and low temp applications otherwise it is amazing for high temp applications. The only other gripe i have is that it annihilates battery life then again it could be my craptacular phone.
Do you have to use blue tooth tools or can you enter in manually?
i just use sman gauges and the check charge app?
looking for something a little better
Can you manually input return or supply air factors if you’re using two smart line temp probes and one smart air probe when doing a non evasive system test?
Just started using MQ with Fieldpiece probes. Awesome for standard DX equipment. We don't do a lot of DX in my job so having a tool like this to help us along is great. I do mostly hydronic work and these tools, especially the clamps and psychrometric probes are awesome for diagnosing problems with chilled water and water/steam reheat coils. Checking differential temp across a valve will let me know quickly if it's leaking by. Many of our terminal air boxes or VAVs don't have discharge air sensors. Fieldpiece and MQ solve that problem easily. Keep up the great work.
Will there be support for the UEI hub 6 smart probes in the future?
🤔🤔 Very good class on Measure Quick.
I would like to know if the UEi wireless clamp meter will be available in the future to use it with MQ.🙄🤔😉✌
Will this app work when using on an ice machine? I’m assuming you would select package unit for the type?
Is there anything in the works to make the Parker smart service tool work with the measure quick or does Parker just suck that bad?
Integration with the Parker / Sporlan smart service tool would be awesome they feel lonely in my truck.
Man am I struggling getting this app to work. I'm sure its user error
Great informative video Jim. Cant wait to try my FP probes with this software, there app was there downfall. Thanks for all your efforts!
Definitely going to get this hooked up to my testo probes on my ac systems I maintain. This looks very promising to make our jobs easier
If I had known Fieldpiece was going to be sported I would have waited and bout them instead of Testo. I have seen so many times the greed of Proprietary kill tech Company's and Testo is going down that path instead of letting the power of Open-Source propel them to great heights.
I bought the Fieldpiece probes, probes are nice but the continuous shut down of the software really sucks. I now have tried using three different phones and two different tablets both android and iOS it’s been nearly a month now every day trying to use them continuous lockout screen crash and loss of data because of the software. Last week I was turned on to Measure Quick to combine with the Fieldpiece probes it works excellent does not continuously drop out and the screen does not freeze up. I give Measure Quick 👍. Measure Quick software in combination with Fieldpiece probes👍. I’m sure in the future Fieldpiece will be better when they correct all their issues with their software but right now it’s still in the beta testing format that needs a lot of help.
I still can't get my imanifold gauges to work with it.