That will depend on your building construction.
If they are on multiple floors, they may be grouped as five per floor.
This is the reason why the 5 zone model in the example files is partitioned that way. You can have the four peripheral zones and one central zone to correctly simulate the variation of solar load over the 24 hour period.
If you use a template of a macro method for entry, the 300 FCU's will just have 300 lines with zone names plus the macro definition.
Dr. Li
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: foolishstar@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:49:29 +0800
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] hundreds of same type of FCU in one zone
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If they are on multiple floors, they may be grouped as five per floor.
This is the reason why the 5 zone model in the example files is partitioned that way. You can have the four peripheral zones and one central zone to correctly simulate the variation of solar load over the 24 hour period.
If you use a template of a macro method for entry, the 300 FCU's will just have 300 lines with zone names plus the macro definition.
Dr. Li
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: foolishstar@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:49:29 +0800
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] hundreds of same type of FCU in one zone
If I have 300 same type of FCUs in one zone, and I have to model the energy consumption according to the proposed design. Do I have easier ways to simulate instead of setting 300 same FCUs, fans and coils in the E+? Can I just set one FCU, and specify the number of the FCU in the zone? To set such number of the same type of FCU is really time consuming.
Thanks!
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