[Equest-users] insufficient heating capability

[Carol Gardner]

Hi DE,

If you look around at all the defaults you will probably find that somewhere
eQUEST is defaulting to 0.5 cfm/sf for your supply air. This is often
insufficient to meet your heating/cooling requirements. Things I have done
in the past to fix this is to use the same cfm/sf as the proposed building
uses, or look in the little ASHRAE Pocket Guide for what they recommend for
your building type. These two numbers will likely be similar

Carol.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, DongEun Kim <equested at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you John,
>
> But isn't airflow supposed to be auto-sized if not specified?
>
> I intentionally leave the flowrate blank to let the program calculate the
> cfm that serves load the best.
>
> Should still  I specifiy cfm?
>
> DE
>
> 2011/7/23 John Aulbach <jra_sac at yahoo.com>
>
>>  Try increasing airflow.
>>
>>   *From:* DongEun Kim <equested at gmail.com>
>> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
>> *Sent:* Friday, July 22, 2011 12:13 AM
>> *Subject:* [Equest-users] insufficient heating capability
>>
>>  Hi eQuesters!
>>
>> Can anyone help me here?
>>
>> I installed main heating coil as well as reheat coil with delta T=30.
>>
>> Heating capacity and cfm is not defined so that they will be auto-sized.
>>
>>  And, I keep having this warning saying that the system "might have
>> insufficient heating capability."
>>
>>  I increased "Zone Entering Max Supply Temp", "Hot Deck Max Leaving
>> Temp."  But, the problem stays.
>>
>>
>> How do I increase the heating capability?
>> Thank you !!
>>
>> DE
>>
>>
>>
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Carol Gardner PE
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