[TRNSYS-users] Type 655: flowrate problem

[wim.vansteenkiste@ugent.be]

Hello everyone,

I'm using a Type 655 air cooled chiller in an HVAC simulation. I found  
messages at this mailinglist from the past saying that the example  
datafile of this type is wrong. That's not my problem. The problem I  
am encountering is that the Type 655 treats the input "chilled water  
flowrate" as a temperature, and therefore you can only choose units  
like C, F or K. Therefore you cannot connect another type , for  
example a pump or a diverter to this type655 as the flowrates are in  
different units and TRNSYS refuses to connect them. The only way to  
connect the flowrates is to use an "equation" that gets the flowrate  
from your pump as an input and sends the exact same flowrate as output  
to the type655.

Is there a more elegant way to solve this?

Thanks in advance,

Wim Vansteenkiste.