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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you for taking a look at my file for
me, I really appreciate it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I zeroed out some of the zones in the “max
heat rate” column because those particular zones do not receive heat from
the air system (ie reheat coils). The heat to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>those zones is entirely baseboard heating.
Do you know if this would create a problem? Maybe it zeros out the baseboard as
well? In the item help it says, however,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Kelsey VanTassel
[mailto:KVanTassel@sustaineng.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 05, 2011
5:23 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Justin Elkin;
equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Equest-users] Under
heated Hours / Unmet heated hours</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>You have overridden
the heating capacity of many zones to zero (Max Heat Rate column). By putting
entries in this field you are overriding the calculated capacities of the
heating/reheat coils based on the design day loads.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Justin Elkin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 05, 2011
3:05 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Equest-users] Under
heated Hours / Unmet heated hours<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
- Thermostat type -> Reverse Action<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>
- Increased Throttling Range<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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-weight:bold'> Justin Elkin, </span></font></b><i><font size=2 color=gray
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