Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Zone and System Sizing, Rookie question

[Morgan Goff <mgbane@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Patricia,

There's no need to apologize for not understanding something.  You will become more accustomed to answering your own questions as you use the program more and more and better understand how things work.  If you check out page 516 in the I/O Reference (as I'm writing this Linda just responded), there is a good explanation of what you're looking for.  The section title is Group ? Design Objects.  Read up on that and it should help.  So a Zone Sizing object will automatically size your zones, assuming you have that option selected in your "Zone" object.  Same goes for any system or plant-type objects. 

Much of your time you will spend exploring the program and understanding what everything (at least, in a general sense) does.

Good luck,

Morgan

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Patricia <patricia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

I apologize in advance for the VERY rookie question. There will be more rookie questions and I'm sorry. Please just ignore them if they annoy you.

My parameters:
I'm using version 4

Question 1:
The defaults for zone and system sizing in the SimulationControl area are 'no'. If I'm trying to model a building that already exists should I leave them as 'no'. I guess I don't understand what these parameters do. I did read the input/output manual. The closest area to read about this was the Timestep on page 56. They don't go into great detail about this (which probably means that they think I should know what it means).

Question 2:
Anyway, does a 'yes' answer for zone sizing calculation mean that I want e+ to give me the correct hvac sizing for the zone(s) I have delineated?

Question 3:
I am not sure I understand the difference between zone and system sizing.

Again, I'm sorry for the extremely basic questions.

Patricia

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