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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please send the weather file too and I will take a look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kelsey Van Tassel</span><span style='color:#000066'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Project Engineer | <a href="mailto:kvantassel@sustaineng.com">kvantassel@sustaineng.com</a></span><span style='color:#000066'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>608.836.4488 ext. 20 | Fax: 608.836.4477</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#000066'><img border=0 width=213 height=79 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CC8370.35AD08D0" alt="SEGlogo(email)"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sustainable Engineering Group</span><span style='color:#000066'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>901 Deming Way, Suite 201</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Madison, WI 53717<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.sustaineng.com/">www.sustaineng.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:#000066'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Justin Elkin<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Under heated Hours / Unmet heated hours<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have been struggling with under heated hours in my model. I have been searching high and low through the archives and have been trying different<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Suggestions made by many different users yet I still cannot manage to solve my under heated hours problem. Unfortunately I don’t have just a few<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hours here and a few hours there, it is a ton of hours that are under heated. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have tried these suggestions made by others and saw some improvement but by some I mean very very little:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Night Cycle Control </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>ā</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Set to “Cycle on Any”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Thermostat type -> Reverse Action<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Increased Throttling Range<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Defaulted all heating/cooling schedules for the zones in the problematic system with the exception of the control zone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Increased Heating Capacity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Change Cooling Control range from 4 degs to 1 deg. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Others that are not coming to mind at the moment but proved unsuccessful<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The main problematic zones are in the “Arena” and “Galleria” Shells of my model. Adding heat to the Galleria did solve my under heated hours but I had <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To add a whole lot of heat in order for that to happen, and I mean A LOT. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is there something I am missing? Can anyone tell me something I may have missed or something noticeably wrong with my system setup? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please offer any advice you may have. The .pd2 and .inp files are attached. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you very much!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'> <b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> Justin Elkin, </span></b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'>LEEDŽ Green Associate</span></i><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:27.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'> Mechanical Engineer-In-Training<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=170 height=35 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC8370.35AD08D0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:27.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'> t: (902) 422-7393<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:27.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'> f: (902) 423-4945<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:27.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'> e:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:jelkin@mreng.ca">jelkin@mreng.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>