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Radiant Heating doesn't work

Hi!

I am trying to install radiant floor in my simulation but I am having problems with that. (I only need the radiant floor during winter, for heating)

These ones are the steps that I've been following: 1. Assigned the Internal construction source on the floor of the house 2. In the thermal zone, I've assigned the ZoneHVAC: Low Temperature Radiant:VariableFlow 3. Completed the info inside this option. Heating Control temperature is on 18ºC and cooling in 50ª (don't want it to work) 4. The schedule of radiant floor is only in Winter Months. 5. I assigned the ZoneHVAC:LowTemperatureRadiant to an empy circuit. (Dind't assigned the cooling one) 6. When I run the simulation I don't get any temperature variation during winter months in the ResultsViewer. The house is still cold in winter.

I attached some pics. BTW.. How do I know between which layers (internal source constructions) are the pipes of the radiant floor?

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Radiant Heating doesn't work

Hi!

I am trying to install radiant floor in my simulation but I am having problems with that. (I only need the radiant floor during winter, for heating)

These ones are the steps that I've been following: 1. Assigned the Internal construction source on the floor of the house 2. In the thermal zone, I've assigned the ZoneHVAC: Low Temperature Radiant:VariableFlow 3. Completed the info inside this option. Heating Control temperature is on 18ºC and cooling in 50ª (don't want it to work) 4. The schedule of radiant floor is only in Winter Months. 5. I assigned the ZoneHVAC:LowTemperatureRadiant to an empy circuit. (Dind't assigned the cooling one) 6. When I run the simulation I don't get any temperature variation during winter months in the ResultsViewer. The house is still cold in winter.

I attached some pics. BTW.. How do I know between which layers (internal source constructions) are the pipes of the radiant floor?

image description image description image description image description image description image description

Radiant Heating doesn't work

Hi!

I am trying to install radiant floor in my simulation but I am having problems with that. (I only need the radiant floor during winter, for heating)

These ones are the steps that I've been following: 1. Assigned the Internal construction source on the floor of the house 2. In the thermal zone, I've assigned the ZoneHVAC: Low Temperature Radiant:VariableFlow 3. Completed the info inside this option. Heating Control temperature is on 18ºC and cooling in 50ª (don't want it to work) 4. The schedule of radiant floor is only in Winter Months. 5. I assigned the ZoneHVAC:LowTemperatureRadiant to an empy circuit. (Dind't assigned the cooling one) 6. When I run the simulation I don't get any temperature variation during winter months in the ResultsViewer. The house is still cold in winter.

I attached some pics. BTW.. How do I know between which layers (internal source constructions) are the pipes of the radiant floor?

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