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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hours here and a few hours there, it is a ton of hours that
are under heated. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Night Cycle Control </span></font><font size=2 face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>à</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Set to “Cycle
on Any”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Thermostat type -> Reverse Action<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Increased Throttling Range<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Defaulted all heating/cooling schedules for the zones in the problematic system
with the exception of the control zone<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Increased Heating Capacity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> -
Change Cooling Control range from 4 degs to 1 deg. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> -
Others that are not coming to mind at the moment but proved unsuccessful<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To add a whole lot of heat in order for that to happen, and
I mean A LOT. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please offer any advice you may have. The .pd2 and .inp
files are attached. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thank you very much!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'> Justin Elkin, </span></font></b><i><font size=2 color=gray
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:gray;
font-style:italic'>LEED® Green Associate</span></font></i><b><font size=1
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font-style:italic'> Mechanical Engineer-In-Training<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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t: (902) 422-7393</span></font><font size=1 color=gray face=Verdana><span
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