[Equest-users] System 4 - PSZHP Unmet Hours - "undefined" thermostat schedules

umesh atre umeshatre at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 09:13:30 PST 2018


Thanks Bill. Guess I need some more coffee :)

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Bishop, Bill <bbishop at pathfinder-ea.com>
wrote:

> When you set the zone COOL/HEAT-TEMP-SCH to “undefined”, there is no
> thermostat control in the zone and no unmet cooling/heating hours will be
> reported because the system is not trying to maintain the zone at any
> particular temperature. The cooling and/or heating thermostat schedules
> should be defined for at least the control zone of a single zone system.
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> *From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On
> Behalf Of *umesh atre via Equest-users
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:26 AM
> *To:* Rybl, Vicki <vrybl at rdkengineers.com>
> *Cc:* equest-users at onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] System 4 - PSZHP Unmet Hours
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> Hi Vicki,
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> When I run your model, I get unmet hours for all except PSZ 9. After
> looking a bit further, this seems to be the only one with no Heat (or Cool)
> Temp Schedule defined.
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> If you revert the schedules back to the default 'undefined' for all
> systems, all unmet hours go away. I am not sure what this means, but does
> look schedule related.
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> Hoping this helps,
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> Take care,
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> Umesh
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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Rybl, Vicki via Equest-users <
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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> Thanks Chris – how did you deal with economizer inputs for the PTHP system?
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> John – weather file is attached.
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> *Subject:* RE: [Equest-users] System 4 - PSZHP Unmet Hours
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> I had the same problem with the PSZ HP system using 3.65.7173. I
> eventually gave up and switched to PTAC HP and the under heated hours
> disappeared.
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> <equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org>] *On Behalf Of *John Aulbach
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> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] System 4 - PSZHP Unmet Hours
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> Would you please send us your weather file also. I cannot seem to get it
> to download.
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> Thanks.
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> On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 12:27:43 PM PST, Rybl, Vicki via
> Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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> Here are the model files.
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> *From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> <equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org>] *On Behalf Of *John Aulbach
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2018 1:54 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] System 4 - PSZHP Unmet Hours
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> Vicki:
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> Would you kindly send the Group your .INP and .PD2 files, so we can help
> you?
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> John R. Aulbach, PE
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> On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 10:34:27 AM PST, Rybl, Vicki via
> Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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> eQuesters:
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> We’re working on a 90.1-2007 baseline model with System 4: PSZ-HP. It’s
> modeled as a Packaged Single Zone system with DX cooling and Heat Pump
> heat. Unmet hours in all zones are through the roof, around 6,000. We’ve
> gone through all our usual methods to mitigate unmet hours to no avail
> (zone entering temp, schedules, total airflow, zone heat source, feels like
> we’ve changed every input available?).
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> If the heat source is switched to electric or furnace, the unmet hours
> disappear. In addition, the design is a VRF system that’s being modeled as
> a PSZ heat pump and has no unmet hours.
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> Has anyone run into this issue? What are we missing?
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> Any insight is appreciated.
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