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how to maintain indoor energy constant

asked 2017-10-18 12:02:08 -0500

tianyang
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updated 2017-10-18 13:07:09 -0500

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I want to maintain the light, equipment and people energy constant, but I don't know how to do in EnergyPlus, could someone help me ? Thanks.

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answered 2017-10-26 11:29:33 -0500

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Use a constant schedule of 1.0. Schedule:Constant is a quick way to define one. For People, it's a little more complicated. Both the Number of People Schedule and the Activity Level Schedule need to be constant. Also, by default the Sensible Heat Fraction varies depending on the zone conditions. So, you would also need to specify a fixed value for that.

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I change Constant schedule to 1, but all my internal heat gain become zero, what should I do?

tianyang ( 2017-11-01 13:31:25 -0500 )edit

If you haven't solved this by now, please share the idf file so we can see exactly what schedule you changed.

MJWitte ( 2017-11-30 23:40:27 -0500 )edit

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