[Equest-users] [eQuest users] packaged variable volume system

[Tomlinson, Scott]

I have a question regarding HVAC system types in eQuest.  My baseline building is modeled as a packaged variable volume system (It is a System 5) while my design building is mostly modeled as a bunch of packaged single zone systems.  For some reason I am getting a 70% reduction in gas consumption, even thought my efficiencies are pretty similar.  This reduction seems unreasonable.  Is there something about the packaged variable volume system  in eQuest that I don't know about?  What type of system do people usually use for a system 5?


-          Thanks,

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Scott Tomlinson, PE, LEED-AP

Mechanical

Symmes Maini & McKee Associates, Inc.

1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

t: 617.520.9438

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