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This is fairly common issue. The zone's design heating load is used to size the reheat coil and if that load is tiny or zero the reheat coils do not come out with enough capacity.
One way of getting some design heating load is to use OtherEquipment (now with the fuel type set to None) with a negative value for the power. A negative internal gain will provide cooling to the zone and thus a design heating load. I use something lik e -20.0 W/m2 or so. Use the OtherEquipment schedule so that the loads occur only during heating design days by using the day type called WinterDesignDay.
