<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt">Christian:<br><br>Can you post your pd2 and inp files so we can take a look?<br><div> </div>Paul Diglio, CEM, CBCP<br><br><div>87 Fairmont Avenue<br>New Haven, CT 06513<br>203-415-0082</div><br><br><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pdigliollc.com">www.pdigliollc.com</a></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Christian Stalberg <cstalberg@naturalintelligence.us><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 6, 2013 9:06:59
AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Equest-users] stumped re. excessive heating<br></font><br>
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">
</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";">**WARNING**********************************************************************</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> ZONE EL1 East Perim Zn (G.E19) </span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> might have insufficient heating capability.</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> Check that the SYSTEM or ZONE HEATING-CAPACITY plus this</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";"> ZONEs BASEBOARD-RATING is adequate to maintain the ZONE</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> specified DESIGN-HEAT-T for the calculated peak ZONE load</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> (see LS-A or LS-B for the ZONE peak load.)</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> </span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> SYSTEM UMA
102 </span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> which supplies the above listed ZONE, has a design heating</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> coil exit temperature, HEAT-SET-T,(plus any zone reheat)</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";"> below its MAX-SUPPLY-T or the ZONE DESIGN-HEAT-T, which</span></p><p class="Normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";"> might account for the insufficient heating capability.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">it would behave this way? What should I look for?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></p><div><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">Thanks in advance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">---</span><span style="color:black;"></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 rel="nofollow" title="blocked::blocked::http://naturalintelligence.us/">http://naturalintelligence.us </a><br>Tel. 919.986.9237</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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