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[EnergyPlus_Support] Baseboard heater - negative heating energy on design summer day



I'm modelling a multiple zone mixed-mode building that uses baseboard heaters for 
heating. The heaters are set to be available throughout the year to ensure temperatures 
don't drop below 15˚C between April and October and 20˚C for the rest of the year.  The 
simulation runs, but with multiple warnings of :

** Warning ** ControlCompOutput: Maximum iterations exceeded for BASEBOARD HEATER

Looking at the results the winter design day seems to behave as expected, but for the 
summer design day the baseboard heaters have a negative heating energy associated with 
them.  

Each zone has in its ZoneHVAC:Equipment List a Baseboard:Convective:Water (with 
heating priority 1 and cooling priority 2) and an AirTerminal:SingleDuct:Uncontrolled (with 
heating priority 2 and cooling priority 1).

Firstly why do I have to assign a heating priority to a cooling object and vice versa?

Secondly can anyone shed light onto why this negative heating energy on the Baseboard 
heaters might be happening?

Your help is appreciated...

Stefan



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