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How to set dual setpoint for a thermal zone in OpenStudio

asked 2015-04-16 04:54:56 -0600

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updated 2015-11-08 11:13:57 -0600

Hi all,

I am trying to set a heating and a cooling thermostat for a thermal zone in OS.

While heating is required, the room temp. should be 22C (supply air 35C) While cooling is required, the room temp. should be 26C (supply air 14C)

I have a VRV system so there is only the airloop. I am not sure which controller to use and where to position it.

Thanks in advance, Daniel

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answered 2015-04-16 10:35:06 -0600

updated 2015-04-16 10:39:44 -0600

The temperatures you want in the zone (22C and 26C) should be set in a temperature schedule and then assigned to the thermal zone as the heating and cooling setpoint schedules, shown in the screenshot below.

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If you have a single zone air loop the temperatures you want for supply air temperatures can be set with a single zone setpoint manager. If your look currently has a schedule setpoint manager as shown below, you can delete it, and replace it with a single zone Setpoint manager. Click the small black triangle pointing down to bring up the "delete" option.

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The single zone setpoint manager has fields for minimum and maximum supply air temperature, as well as a control zone, which in your case should be set to the one zone you have on your model. You can have multiple zones on an air loop with the single zone setpoint manager, but all the system behavior will only be affected by the control zone.

The scheduled setpoint manager controls supply air temperature with a schedule.

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Thank you David for the detailed explanation. I will give it a try. Daniel

Daniel Mak's avatar Daniel Mak  ( 2015-04-16 19:43:10 -0600 )edit

It worked very well, thanks again David.

The problem I have got now is that there are 100 thermal zones using this scheme in my model. I tried to group thermal zones facing the same orientation into one system but the unmet hours also go up because of poor temperature control in other zones of the group.

Do you have any advise on this situation? Or do I simply have to create 100 different systems?

Regards, Daniel

Daniel Mak's avatar Daniel Mak  ( 2015-04-16 23:59:17 -0600 )edit

Hello @Daniel Mak, I was wondering if you ever found an answer to your last question? I am currently working on a model with 30 zones and would like a setpoint manager that can control all zones.

JustinShultz's avatar JustinShultz  ( 2016-07-07 11:08:50 -0600 )edit

Glad I stumbled upon this. It works wonderfully for the single zone in my model. Could not make it work before, but now its running beautifully, thanks to the above explanation by David Goldwasser.

Matt Koch's avatar Matt Koch  ( 2017-08-03 13:15:41 -0600 )edit

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