What constraints are placed on Ideal Air Loads that would cause it to be unable to meet setpoint?
I am using ideal air loads in a somewhat unique zone and am getting 8369 unmet cooling hours. I had thought that ideal air loads was designed to meet temperature setpoints no matter what.
Zone characteristics are as follows:
- Below grade
- All adiabatic boundaries except with the floor above (this was done to avoid additional heat gains from the OS-assumed ground temperature of 18C)
- Very large volume
- Setpoint of 41F
Could the issue be the outlandishly low setpoint temperature?
If you plot the zone temperatures for the zone, what does it look like is happening? Would be interesting to see what temperature it is typically getting down to. Also is your heating setpoint set somewhere below 41f. Normally I would expect a fatal error if you don't have a deadband, but I can't say I've confirmed that with ideal air loads. Thought I'd ask just to confirm.
I built in a 1F deadband. For most of the year the system get the zone at exactly 55F. In the coldest of months, it was able to the temperature below 55F (even meeting the 41F setpoint at some times).