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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='color:#1F497D'>Hi Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I did not have a weather file for Medellin but used one for Bogota. Wow Bogota is at an elevation of 8400 feet and its cold there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Medellin is above 4000 feet (Not so tropical and heating is needed) you should use this altitude in your model (you currently have 0) this should allow eQuest to properly size the heat capacity for this altitude and your warnings should disappear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Perhaps you should re-consider electric heat. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hope this helps <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:black'>-David</span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>David C. 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equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] stumped re. excessive heating<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";color:black'>Here you go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><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'>---</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Christian Stalberg<br>Principal<br>Natural Intelligence, LLC <u><br></u><a href="blocked::blocked::http://naturalintelligence.us/" title="blocked::blocked::http://naturalintelligence.us/">http://naturalintelligence.us </a><br>Tel. 919.986.9237<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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"'> Paul Diglio [<a href="mailto:paul.diglio@sbcglobal.net">mailto:paul.diglio@sbcglobal.net</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cstalberg@naturalintelligence.us">cstalberg@naturalintelligence.us</a>; <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] stumped re. excessive heating<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Christian:<br><br>Can you post your pd2 and inp files so we can take a look?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Paul Diglio, CEM, CBCP<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>87 Fairmont Avenue<br>New Haven, CT 06513<br>203-415-0082<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.pdigliollc.com" target="_blank">www.pdigliollc.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='margin-left:.5in'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><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"'> Christian Stalberg <<a href="mailto:cstalberg@naturalintelligence.us">cstalberg@naturalintelligence.us</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, March 6, 2013 9:06:59 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] stumped re. excessive heating</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I have a proposed building in a tropical climate with CHW cooling and </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>no heating. Per ASHRAE I’m installing electric heat in both the Baseline </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>and Proposed models. The heating in the Proposed is double what it is </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>in the Baseline. Worse yet, I am getting the following warning:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>**WARNING**********************************************************************</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ZONE EL1 East Perim Zn (G.E19) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> might have insufficient heating capability.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Check that the SYSTEM or ZONE HEATING-CAPACITY plus this</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'> ZONEs BASEBOARD-RATING is adequate to maintain the ZONE</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> specified DESIGN-HEAT-T for the calculated peak ZONE load</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> (see LS-A or LS-B for the ZONE peak load.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> SYSTEM UMA 102 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> which supplies the above listed ZONE, has a design heating</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> coil exit temperature, HEAT-SET-T,(plus any zone reheat)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> below its MAX-SUPPLY-T or the ZONE DESIGN-HEAT-T, which</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=normal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'> might account for the insufficient heating capability.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Does eQUEST overcompensate for an erroneous config for heating such that </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>it would behave this way? What should I look for?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks in advance.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>---</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Christian Stalberg<br>Principal<br>Natural Intelligence, LLC <u><br></u><a href="http://naturalintelligence.us">http://naturalintelligence.us</a> <br>Tel. 919.986.9237</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>