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Autosizing Service Hot Water leads to very long run time

Hello folks

I recently worked on a project where I had selected district heating for service hot water. When I ran the annual simulation with the nominal capacity set to 1000000 watts the simulation took about 7 minutes to complete. But when I set that nominal capacity to Autosize the same simulation took more than 1 hour to complete. There was no other difference in the model. Why would autosizing the District Heating object have such a drastic impact? I hope some one can explain. Thanks

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Autosizing Service Hot Water leads to very long run time

Hello folks

I recently worked on a project where I had selected district heating for service hot water. When I ran the annual simulation with the nominal capacity set to 1000000 watts the simulation took about 7 minutes to complete. But when I set that nominal capacity to Autosize the same simulation took more than 1 hour to complete. There was no other difference in the model. Why would autosizing the District Heating object have such a drastic impact? I hope some one can explain. Thanks

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Autosizing Service Hot Water leads to very long run time

Hello folks

I recently worked on a project where I had selected district heating for service hot water. When I ran the annual simulation with the nominal capacity set to 1000000 watts the simulation took about 7 minutes to complete. But when I set that nominal capacity to Autosize the same simulation took more than 1 hour to complete. There was no other difference in the model. Why would autosizing the District Heating object have such a drastic impact? I hope some one can explain. Thanks

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