[Equest-users] PTAC system

John Aulbach jra_sac at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 20 13:19:13 PDT 2009


Tom:

This may be a silly question, but if you chose a Packaged VAV with hot water reheat, then set the minimum flow rate faction to 1.0, would you not have the system you seek?

John Aulbach

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Eckwahl, Tom <TEckwahl at karpinskieng.com> wrote:

> From: Eckwahl, Tom <TEckwahl at karpinskieng.com>
> Subject: [Equest-users] PTAC system
> To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:03 PM
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> someone has modeled ASHRAE system type 1 in
> Equest; I don’t know why it isn’t set up to be
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> the baseline systems types.  When “hot water
> coils” is
> selected as the heating source the system types are as
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>  packaged VAV
> with how water
>      reheat 
>  packaged
> multizone with HW heat 
>  packaged DX
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>      powered VAV with hot water reheat 
>  packaged DX
> series fan powered
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> heating source is set at elec resistance it gives you
> Packaged single zone dx
> with electric heat as the system type…. Which is
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> I’m going to go with “packaged multizone
> with HW heat” and try to manipulate it to my
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> Thomas N. Eckwahl
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> Project Engineer, Mechanical 
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