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Get Fan Associated with VRF Terminal

For a VRF terminal unit, I can access the heating or cooling coil quite simply by .heatingCoil or .coolingCoil however the method .supplyAirFan returns an HVACComponent. I can't seem to figure out how to access the fan so I can adjust the pressure rise. Moreover, the constructor for ZoneHVACTerminalUnitVariableRefrigerantFlow doesn'y allow me to pass in a fan object the way I could with ZoneHVACFourPipeFanCoil for example.

In short, what I'm wondering is how to return the fan associated with a VRF terminal unit or if there is a simple method to pass in a fan as an argument? I could just grab all the fans from the model space, but that's not quite as direct.

Get Fan Associated with VRF Terminal

For a VRF terminal unit, I can access the heating or cooling coil quite simply by .heatingCoil or .coolingCoil however the method .supplyAirFan returns an HVACComponent. I can't seem to figure out how to access the fan so I can adjust the pressure rise. Moreover, the constructor for ZoneHVACTerminalUnitVariableRefrigerantFlow doesn'y allow me to pass in a fan object the way I could with ZoneHVACFourPipeFanCoil for example.

In short, what I'm wondering is how to return the fan associated with a VRF terminal unit or if there is a simple method to pass in a fan as an argument? I could just grab all the fans from the model space, but that's not quite as direct.

Get Fan Associated with VRF Terminal

For a VRF terminal unit, I can access the heating or cooling coil quite simply by .heatingCoil or .coolingCoil however the method .supplyAirFan returns an HVACComponent. I can't seem to figure out how to access the fan so I can adjust the pressure rise. Moreover, the constructor for ZoneHVACTerminalUnitVariableRefrigerantFlow doesn'y allow me to pass in a fan object the way I could with ZoneHVACFourPipeFanCoil for example.

In short, what I'm wondering is how to return the fan associated with a VRF terminal unit or if there is a simple method to pass in a fan as an argument? I could just grab all the fans from the model space, but that's not quite as direct.

Get Fan Associated with VRF Terminal

For a VRF terminal unit, I can access the heating or cooling coil quite simply by .heatingCoil or .coolingCoil however the method .supplyAirFan returns an HVACComponent. I can't seem to figure out how to access the fan so I can adjust the pressure rise. Moreover, the constructor for ZoneHVACTerminalUnitVariableRefrigerantFlow doesn'y allow me to pass in a fan object the way I could with ZoneHVACFourPipeFanCoil for example.

In short, what I'm wondering is how to return the fan associated with a VRF terminal unit or if there is a simple method to pass in a fan as an argument? I could just grab all the fans from the model space, but that's not quite as direct.