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Manually specified airflow is "ignored"

I'm scratching my head! I've specified a very simple, electric heating-only system with heat exchanger to be constantly at 6.6m3/s (14,000 cfm). The IDF confirms this value in several locations. (AirLoopHVAC, HeatExchanger:AirtoAir:SensibleandLatent, Fan:Constantvolume)

When I run the simulation, however, and examine the output, the airflow shows a constant 4.6m3/s (~9,800 cfm).

If I change the inputs to 9.9m3/s (21,000cfm), the results stay at 4.63m3/s.

This makes no sense to me, since I think I've manually specified everything associated with airflow... Insights will be very much appreciated.

Manually specified airflow is "ignored"

I'm scratching my head! I've specified a very simple, electric heating-only system with heat exchanger to be constantly at 6.6m3/s (14,000 cfm). The IDF confirms this value in several locations. (AirLoopHVAC, HeatExchanger:AirtoAir:SensibleandLatent, Fan:Constantvolume)

When I run the simulation, however, and examine the output, the airflow shows a constant 4.6m3/s (~9,800 cfm).

If I change the inputs to 9.9m3/s (21,000cfm), the results stay at 4.63m3/s.

This makes no sense to me, since I think I've manually specified everything associated with airflow... Insights will be very much appreciated.