Diagraming Heating and Cooling Load Calculations Over Time
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Is there a way to get a time series of heating/cooling loads (for a location and a design). I’m familiar with Manual J which gives max design loads but I’d really like to see loads over time. Ultimately I’d like to play around with some visualizations for communicating about equipment sizing and turn-down ratios.
Could one take Manual J design loads (especially room by room loads) and map them onto curves derived from heating/cooling degree days for a location (averaged over some period?).
Or is this something available in simulations like BEOpt or others? Happy to be directed to other forums etc.
Thanks,
James
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You can download daily degree day data for a location at degreedays.net, if that's good enough for what you want to do.
I built a simplified manual j spreadsheet ms-excel that supported different design temperatures for November through April. That I used to help size a heat pump and boiler turn down ratios. Have you tried just using a spreadsheet?