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ADDING A WALL ................................................................................................................................. 20 RULE NUMBER 2 ................................................................................................................................. 20 ADDING A WINDOW ............................................................................................................................ 21 ADDING A CEILING ............................................................................................................................. 22 MORE NAVIGATION ............................................................................................................................ 23 CHANGING INFORMATION ................................................................................................................. 23 ADDING PEOPLE ................................................................................................................................. 23 ADDING THE DINING ROOM ............................................................................................................... 24 THE RESULTS ...................................................................................................................................... 27 ADDING A FIREPLACE ........................................................................................................................ 27 ADDING A KITCHEN ............................................................................................................................ 27 DOING A WHOLE HOUSE CALCULATION .......................................................................................... 29 ADDING ANOTHER ZONE ................................................................................................................... 30 ADDING ALL ROOMS .......................................................................................................................... 30 THE BASEMENT FLOOR...................................................................................................................... 30 BASEMENT WALLS ............................................................................................................................. 30 FINISHED ............................................................................................................................................. 33 LOADING IN A JOB .............................................................................................................................. 33 VIEWING AND PRINTING REPORTS.................................................................................................... 34 REPORTS IN PDF FORMAT ................................................................................................................ 35 SIZING THE FURNACE ......................................................................................................................... 36 SIZING THE AIR CONDITIONER.......................................................................................................... 36 END OF TUTORIAL .............................................................................................................................. 36 HOW DO I ..................................................................................................................................... 36 HOW DO I REGISTER THE PROGRAM ............................................................................................... 36 HOW DO I ADD MY HEADING ........................................................................................................... 37 HOW DO I SAVE MY SLOGAN ............................................................................................................ 37 HOW DO I DO MOBILE HOMES ......................................................................................................... 37 HOW DO I CHANGE THE ORDER OF ROOMS AND ZONES ................................................................ 37 HOW DO I DO A CFM REPORT ......................................................................................................... 37 HOW DO I SIZE THE DUCTS ............................................................................................................... 38 CHANGE CFM ...................................................................................................................................... 39 SPLIT .................................................................................................................................................... 39 DELETE................................................................................................................................................. 39 SELECT ALL CHILDREN ........................................................................................................................ 39 CLEAR ALL CHILDREN ......................................................................................................................... 39 ENTER CFM DIRECTLY........................................................................................................................ 39 THE DUCT REPORT............................................................................................................................... 39 VIEW FULL REPORT ............................................................................................................................. 39 HOW DO I DO A HOT WATER BASEBOARD REPORT ....................................................................... 39 HOW DO I MAKE A COPY OF A JOB .................................................................................................. 40 HOW DO I CHANGE WHERE MY JOBS ARE STORED ....................................................................... 40 HOW DO I TURN OFF THE TONNAGE IN REPORTS ........................................................................... 40 THE END .............................................................................................................................................. 40
Introduction
Welcome
My name is Don Sleeth and I thank you for choosing HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0. It was 1981 when I wrote my first Manual J heat loss and heat gain program, over 25 years ago. There was no such thing as a PC at that time; IBM was still making only main frame computers. It was written on a wonderful little computer, the Sharp PC 1500, which had all of 10K of memory and only a one-line screen! The computer I use now has 12,800 times as much memory. Computers have changed but people have not. People still need computer programs that are simple to use. They need programs that dont require them to use a calculator or look up information in tables. That should be the computers job. I think you will enjoy using HVAC-Calc. That fact that I like simplicity and the fact that I was an HVAC contractor for many years before writing computer programs shows in the design of the program.
System Requirements
The HVAC-Calc programs (both Residential 4.0 and Commercial 4.0) are light, small footprint programs. They will work on any computer that has Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 , XP, and now Vista and on Macs with Virtual PC or SoftWindows. They were designed to work at the lowest screen resolution of 640 X 480 but look much better at 800 X 600 or higher.
Pricing - Licensing
The standard license is $389 for one user. This includes free updates (downloadable) and support. It also includes the program on CD. Having been a contractor, I try to make things easy for you, so you are allowed to install the program on up to 3 computers, but only one user is licensed to use the program. If you have more than one user, you must pay an additional $89 for each one. If you have multiple sites, you can call for special pricing. As a further break, I consider family members as just the original user. This means your wife, husband, son or daughter, even if employed in the business can use it for the single user license. To order on-line, please go to http://www.hvaccomputer.com/order or call 1-888-736-1101 We also have special pricing for educational institutions, please call.
Installation
Many who are reading this manual have already installed the program from the downloaded setup file, so this section refers to those installing from CD. Insert the CD into your CD drive. Probably the CD will start the installation program automatically. If it does not, click the Windows Start button in the bottom left of your screen and then click Run. In the pop-up box, type D:HVAC-CalcSetup (replace D with the drive letter of your particular CD drive) and click on OK. You will then see a standard Windows installation that will be almost totally automatic. Just proceed through the installation, clicking on Next. At one point you will be asked where you want to install HVAC-Calc, I strongly suggest you accept the default of "program files\hvaccalc". The installation program installs the necessary files on your hard drive. After installation is complete, you may be required to re-start Windows. Remove the CD from the drive and store it in a safe place. There is no copy protection on the CD, you are welcome to make copies and give them to others who might have a use for the program. Of course, you are not welcome to give them your registration number! Each time you install the program on a new computer or reformatted computer, you must tell that computer that you own the program. You do that by Registering the program with your unique registration name and number. Please see the Registration Instructions page that is included with the CD or see How Do I Register the Program on page 35 of this manual.
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 furnace that exactly matched your heat loss at the design temperature, it would be able to heat your house just fine 97 % of the time in an average winter. But an average winter means that there are winters colder than average and warmer than average. That is why most contractors would choose a furnace size that is larger than that needed at design conditions by a safety factor. I use a safety factor of 15% to 25%. More is said on this in the sections below.
Just like there is a Design Temperature for winter, there is also one for summer as well as a Design Humidity Content known as Grains of Moisture. All of these design conditions are built in to HVAC-Calc and available for you to use with the registered version of the program.
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 goes the other way, it is warmer outside and ideally, cooler inside. Heat is transferred from the hot outside and it also is brought in with outside air, infiltration.
The four factors discussed above all affect heat gain also, in exactly the same way they affect heat loss. However there is one additional and very important factor regarding heat gain, namely solar gain through glass. In addition to heat transferring in through the house envelope and sneaking in through infiltration it is also radiated in by sunlight, both direct and indirect, through windows, glass doors and skylights. There is also an additional unit of measurement that is used to describe the cooling capacity of air conditioners and that is the Ton. One Ton = 12,000 BTU per hour (BTUH). It comes from the number of BTUs absorbed by a ton of ice melting in 24 hours. If you have a heat gain of 30,000 BTUH (at the summer design temperature) then you would need to remove 30,000 BTUH in order to keep the house at the indoor design temperature of say 75. You could remove the 30,000 BTUs each hour by either setting up some fans to blow the inside air over a mountain of ice, being sure to completely melt 2 tons each day, or you can install a 2 ton air conditioner. Due to the difficulty of obtaining ice these days and the problems associated with drinking two and a half tons of ice water each day, most of your customers would prefer an air conditioner.
Sizing Furnaces
The first and most important step in sizing a furnace is to do the heat loss calculation. This is what HVAC-Calc does. When you are finished you will have a number that is the Design Heat Loss of the house. Lets say that number is 52,234 BTUH. As discussed above, this means that the house loses 52,234 BTUs each hour when the outdoor temperature is the Winter Outdoor Design temperature for your area. Obviously, you want a furnace with an output of at least 52,234 BTUH. Most contractors, including myself, would add a safety factor to the requirement. After all, weather data is averaged to come up with the Winter Design Temperature and you want to be warm even on
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 colder than average winters. My own personal recommendation is a 15% to 25% safety factor. I do get some flack from the energy conservation enthusiasts on this recommendation, you have to judge for yourself. Please note: There is no safety factor built into the program. The results are as accurate as possible. Just in case you missed that, there is no safety factor built into the program. So, 52,234 plus 20% = 62,680 BTUH, this means a furnace with a 65,000 or 70,000 output would do nicely.
Why not add a big safety factor, like 100% to be really safe? There are a number of reasons why not. Operating costs go up. A furnace that runs only for short bursts uses more fuel, much like city driving compared to highway driving. Initial costs of the furnace and the larger ductwork go up. Comfort level may go down due to short bursts of hot air and long off cycles Furnace life may be shortened due to condensation on the heat exchanger.
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 28,000 and the Latent Heat Gain = 2,000. Now, look at the published capacities of the 2 ton unit. They may be Total Capacity = 30,000, Sensible Capacity = 20,000 and Latent Capacity = 10,000. The unit is too small; it will not remove enough sensible heat. You will need to find a larger unit with a higher sensible cooling capacity. Please note: There is no safety factor built into the program. The results are as accurate as possible. Just in case you missed that, there is no safety factor built into the program. For sizing air conditioners, do NOT add a safety factor. For the reasons explained above, air conditioners that are oversized do a lousy job.
For now, there are only two items in the list, New Job and Sample House. New Job will always be at the top and is the selection you make if you want to start a new load calculation. First, lets look at a completed job, select Sample House and click on the Load button on the top right.
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Enabled Buttons
Disabled Buttons
Button Bar
The Tree shows the organization of the house. It is probably the most important part of the whole screen. In HVAC-Calc every part of the house is owned by (or attached to) some other part of the house. For instance the First Floor, which is a Zone Component, owns the Living Room and the other rooms, which are Room Components. The Sample House is a Job Component, and it owns the First Floor and Basement which are Zone Components. Do you see the little lines in the Tree that show what is attached to what? You can also see that Sample House owns Design Conditions and Infiltration as well as the two Zone Components. Also, The First Floor Zone owns a Duct Component. The ownership relationship is used throughout the program, so dont worry if you dont quite get it yet. That is what the tutorial is for. Click on the Expander Buttons. Now you can really see how components are all attached to one another. Click on and double click on the little yellow triangles in the Tree. Select different components in the Tree and notice how the Enabled Buttons and Disabled Buttons change depending on what is selected in the Tree. Click on the Results Tab. And then click back on the Job Tab. Okay, enough fooling around; lets do a load from scratch.
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Weve Started!
We have lift off! We have started to build our load by adding a Job Component to the Tree. Several things happened on the screen, Ill point out some of them but dont worry if you dont quite understand yet, you will understand shortly. The little box beside the word Job on the tab now has a blue checkmark in it. This means that the information in the Information Screen is about an existing component as compared to one we are looking at but have not yet added More buttons are enabled in the Button Bar. All the ones that are enabled can be added to a Job Component, the ones that are disabled cannot be added to the Job Component. For instance, if you were building a person, you could not connect the leg to the head. In a house, you cannot connect a Door to the House, you will see later that you can connect a Door to a Wall. Notice how the word Job in the Button Bar is underlined, indicating that component has been added. The Add button is now disabled but the Change and Delete buttons are enabled. This is because the Information Screen is the same as the selection in the Tree and you cant add a Job Component to a Job Component. But you could change it or delete it. The Help Panel (at the bottom of the screen) has new help for you There are hundreds of different help panels to help you get the job done. Most importantly, the house itself has been added to the Tree.
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How to Navigate
If you want to add a certain component, like, say, Design Conditions, then you need to get the questions about Design Conditions to appear so that you can answer them, then add the component. How do you get the right Information Screen to appear? Well, there are two ways. One way to get the right Information Screen to appear is to repeatedly click on the owner of the component in the Tree until you see the Information Screen that you want. To see this work, click on Don Sleeth in the Tree (In the Tree not in the Information Screen). Do it again and again noticing the different Information Screens you see. You should see Job, Design Conditions, Infiltration, Zone and then back to Job again. This also helps you learn which components the Job Component owns; if it cant be added, you are not going to see it. Notice how the Add button becomes enabled when you are viewing a component that can be added to the component that is selected in the Tree. The other way to navigate is with the button bar. Right now there are 4 buttons enabled and clicking on any one of them will bring you to that Information Screen. Try it. The reason you can see only 4 different Information Screens is that there are only three things that can be added to a Job Component, namely Design Conditions, Infiltration and Zone Components.
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Adding Infiltration
We now have the House Component and the Design Conditions Component in the Tree. The next component to add is the Infiltration Component. With Don Sleeth selected in the Tree, click on the Infiltration button in the Button Bar so you can see the Infiltration Information Screen. HVAC-Calc does most of the hard part about load calculations for you. It simply needs some information from you, and then it will calculate the load. The steps (in the yellow part) on each Information Screen are numbered; all you have to do is answer them in order. In Step 1., select Avg. (loose construction, poor vapor barrier). If the selection is already made for you, then you dont have to do anything. Step 2. Enter any forced ventilation here. This is for fresh air fans. Hold your mouse cursor over Step 2 and read the Help Panel. It says, If there is a forced fresh air intake fan that is in constant operation, not intermittent like bathroom or kitchen fans, enter the CFM value here." As you can see, there is very specific and useful help available on screen. I dont want this manual to be too large so I will not repeat all the help and explanations here. You would be wise to read them on your screen as we go. Infiltration is the air that sneaks in through cracks. It is measured in Air Changes per Hour (ACH). An infiltration rate of 1 ACH means that enough air leaks in to the house (and out, obviously) to completely change all the air in the house in one hour. The ACH infiltration rate depends on the size of the house and the tightness and the number of fireplaces. HVAC-Calc will automatically calculate those values for you (they are different in summer and winter) and
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use them to calculate the load, if you leave Automatically use the recommended ACH values selected in Step. 3. We are finished with the Infiltration so click on the Add button. You should now have a House Component (Don Sleeth) and it owns two components, namely Design Conditions and Infiltration.
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Rule Number 1 Rule Number 1: If a component does not have a heat transfer, then dont add it to the Tree, unless it is a floor.
This means that you do not add interior walls, you do not add ceilings that are below conditioned spaces. It also means that this is a rule with an exception, floors. You always add a Floor Component to a Room Component even if it is over a conditioned space. But we are getting ahead of ourselves, well talk about floors later. We are not going to add a Duct Component, so lets move along to Rooms.
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Adding a Floor
After adding a Room, the first thing we want to do is add the Floor, remember, we always add the floor. Click on Living Room in the Tree to bring up the Floor Information Screen. Step 1 is to enter the floor area. I dont know about you, but I cannot multiply 21 by 14 in my head. Click in the box labeled Length and type in 21. Hit the Tab key on your keyboard twice, to get to the width box and type in 14. Now click on the little red Plus button to the right of the blue Area box. HVAC-Calc does the arithmetic for you and puts the answer in the blue box. If you were doing an L-shaped room you could put the dimensions of the other rectangle in the Length and Width boxes, then click on the Plus to add the second rectangle to the first. In Step 2. Select floor location, select Over conditioned space. Remember, Floors are the only Components that are added even if they dont contribute to the load, such as when they are over a conditioned space. Steps 3 and 4 are not applicable, due to our selection of Over a conditioned space in Step 1. Below is a picture of my screen before clicking on Add. Take a look then click on Add.
After adding the floor, notice how it is indented in the Tree underneath its owner, the Living Room. Also notice what other buttons are enabled in the Button Bar. If the floor of the Living Room was partly over a conditioned space and partly some other type of floor such as a slab, you could simply add two Floor Components to the Living Room to handle that situation. Lets do that, just for practice. There are a couple of things I can show you while we are doing it.
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With Living Room selected in the Tree, click on the Floor button in the Button Bar in order to bring a blank Floor Information Screen into view. If you had clicked on the Floor in the Tree by mistake, you would bring up the Information Screen about that particular floor, already filled in. Lets say there is another section of the Living Room that is 7 feet along the outside wall and 14 feet wide and it is a slab on grade. In the Length box type 7, hit Tab twice and in the Width box type 14, then click on the red Plus button.7 For Step 2, select Concrete slab on grade. Step 3 is done for you, step 4 select 1 in. edge R 5. Slab floors lose heat around the edges, and only the edges that are exterior. Step 5 is asking for the perimeter of the slab floor, outside wall only. We should enter 7 in the blue box labeled Perimeter, however, lets make a mistake on purpose. Leave the Perimeter as 0 and click on Add. You can see that Floor(2) gets added, but there is a warning sign. Select Floor(2) in the Tree and read the warning in the Help Panel. Slab floors lose heat around the outside perimeter. If you had a room on a slab with no exterior walls, then 0 would be the right answer, however that is not the case here.
Click on OK. Now take a look at Floor(2) (by selecting it in the Tree). See, it is no longer a slab floor! It has been changed to match the original floor, the one that was on screen when you clicked the Change All button. You can use the Change-All button to make all Components match the one you are looking at in the Information Screen. It is a quick way to make changes to many components at once.
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Adding a Wall
The next component of the Living Room we want to add is the west wall. As I have said before, every component is owned by another component and if you want to add a new component, you must select the owner of that new component in the Tree. Actually, this is so important we are going to make it a rule:
Rule Number 2 Rule Number 2: To add a new component, select the owner of that component in the Tree.
Rooms own walls. This particular Wall Component is owned by the Living Room. So, select Living Room in the Tree and click the Wall button in the button bar. This brings up the blank Wall Information Screen. Step 1 is to Select Wall direction and enter wall area. Click on the W for West in the compass. Try clicking on the other directions so you can see how the cool little compass works and then click back on W. Now click in the Length box and enter 21. Hit the tab key twice to get to the Height box and enter 8. Now click on the red Plus button to do the arithmetic. Notice that the gross wall area is entered. HVAC-Calc is smart enough to subtract any windows, doors or glass doors that we might add to this wall. In Step 2, select Wood frame, with sheathing siding or brick. Hold the mouse cursor over Step.3 and read the Help Panel. If you are ever unsure of anything, be sure to read the Help Panel. Select R-11 (3 in.). This is the standard insulation in the wall cavity of a wall with 2 X 4 studs. Step 5 refers to the outside insulation behind the siding or brick. If you dont know what lies behind the brick, dont worry too much about it. R values add together so it really makes almost no difference whether it is R-1.8 or R 2.5; it is the R-11 or R-19 in the wall cavity that is the dominant factor. In our wall, select 1/2 in. Bead Board (R-1.8). Here is a picture of my screen before adding the wall.
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After checking it out, click on the red Add button. You now see the W Wall has been added to the Living Room in the Tree.
Adding a Window
HVAC-Calc does not insist that you add components in a special order, however it does try to guess what you might want to do next. Right now, because you have just added a wall, it is guessing that you may want to add some windows or doors to that wall. As you have probably figured out by now, Walls can own Windows, Doors and Glass Doors. This wall has two 5 by 4 windows. Click on the Window button in the Button Bar. This brings up a blank Window screen. Because there are two windows, we could add two Window Components but since both windows are of the same type, it is easier just to add their areas together and add them as one component. Click in the Length box and type 5. Hit the tab key twice and put 4 in the Height box. Now click on the red Plus button. The screen should read 20 + 5 X 4. Click on the red Plus button a second time. HVAC-Calc does the arithmetic for you and now the window area is shown as 40. Make the selections as shown on the picture below. They are all quite straightforward, except perhaps for Step 6. Outside shading. If the window has some sort of object or device that permanently keeps this window partially shaded, then you can indicate that in Step 6. I emphasize permanent, trees can be cut down, sheds or shading devices can be moved. I personally almost always select 0% (No external shading)
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In Step 7. Inside shading, I would only select draperies or blinds if it was one of those rooms with an extremely large area of glass and there was no way you could adequately cool the room without closing the blinds. Most people like to have their blinds open on a nice summer day so you should probably select No inside shading. In talking to contractors, I find they often have selected Draperies or blinds, to emphasize I recommend against that, unless there is a very strong reason. I always select No inside shading.
Adding a Ceiling
Okay, we have the Floor and the Wall done, the next obvious thing to do would be the Ceiling. Remember Rule Number 2, if we want to add a component, we select the owner of that component in the Tree. Who owns ceilings? Rooms do. So select Living Room in the Tree. Look at the buttons that are enabled in the Button Bar. This is a good reminder of what all we might want to add to the Living Room. This time we will navigate the other way. Click on Living Room in the Tree again. And again and again until you bring up the Ceiling Information Screen. Usually the Ceiling is the same area as the Floor so HVAC-Calc has thought ahead and filled that out for you already. If it was wrong, you could just change it, however this is correct for us. Remember also, if the ceiling were below a second floor, we would not be adding a ceiling to the Living Room no heat transfer Rule Number 1.
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In Steps 2, 3, and 4, select Under ventilated attic, Dark and R-19 ( 4 6.5 inch); then click Add. If there were any skylights, (they are owned by ceilings), we would add one now, however there is none in this particular living room.
More Navigation
To be sure you understand how to navigate around the program, click on each of the components owned by the Living Room. Notice how when you select an existing component in the Tree, the Information Screen for that component comes into view. Notice the blue check mark next to the Information Screen label, indicating that this is an existing component, not a blank screen.
Changing Information
Suppose you had made a mistake and the wall really faced South, not West. You need to change information that you have already added to the Tree. Not a problem. Select W Wall in the Tree. Click on the S in the compass. Click on Change. That is all there is to it, the wall and everything it owns now face South. Okay, click back on W again and click on Change again to restore the wall to West facing.
Adding People
Select Living Room in the Tree. You can see from the Button Bar that you could still add People, Fireplace and Miscellaneous. The people in a house add both sensible and latent cooling load. When calculating the load, you should place the people in the room where they may be found during the middle of the afternoon. Generally, you would choose the room where the TV is. Lets add 3 people to the Living Room. Click on the People button and then click on 3 (or type it in) and then click on Add. Here is what my screen looks like with the Living Room finished.
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Click on Dining Room in the Tree to bring up a blank Floor screen. Put 7 in the length box and put 18 in the width (or vice versa) and click on the red Plus button. Steps 2, 3 and 4 are done for you so click on Add. Here is a shot of mine before clicking Add.
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Now click on the Wall Button (assuming Dining Room, the owner of the wall, is selected in the Tree). Well do the West wall first which is 7 feet. The cursor is already in the Length box so put in 7, click on the red Plus, notice that the selections for this wall are already done, so click on Add. The West wall has no windows or doors so we want to move on to the North wall. What do we select in the Tree? We select the owner of the North Wall. Who owns the North Wall? The Dining Room does, so select it in the Tree, then click on the Wall button in the Button Bar. The cursor is already in the Length box so put in 18, click on the red Plus and then dont forget to click on the N in the compass. All the other selections are correct, so click on Add. The North Wall, which is selected in the Tree, owns a Window, so click on the Window button. The window is 5 by 4 so put 5 in the length box, tab, tab and 4 in the width box, click on the red plus. Notice how all the selections are made for you, and click on Add. Next we want to add a ceiling so select Dining Room in the Tree and click on the Ceiling button. The area is already filled in, so are all the other selections, so click on Add. Finished! Not bad, eh! I hope you were impressed. I think you can see that once youve got the hang of this program you can just fly through a load calculation.
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The Results
Lets take a look at our results so far. HVAC-Calc instantly recalculates the load as you go so you can check it anytime. Click on the Results tab on the Information Screen. You can see a clear summary of the total heat loss and heat gain for each component type and for the building as a whole. The top line shows the load for the individual component that is selected in the Tree. If you select the ceiling of the Dining Room, you can see the load for that component in the top line. Mine is 361 BTUH on the Heat Gain column. Looking down the list I can see the total Heat Gain for all the Ceiling components is 1,202. Now select the ceiling of the Living Room in the Tree. Mine shows a cooling load of 841. Adding the two together is 361 + 841 = 1202, it adds up.
Adding a Fireplace
We are not going to do the complete house, I dont want to bore you to death, but there are still some components we havent seen yet so well investigate them now. Lets add a Fireplace component to the Living Room. Select Living Room in the Tree and then click on the Fireplace button. Fireplaces make a significant difference in the infiltration load in the winter. Select Average glass doors, damper and then click on Add. Now click on the Results tab. You can see that the heat loss attributed to the Fireplace is 1,170. Click on Fireplace in the Tree and click on the Fireplace Tab on the Information Screen. Select Best combustion air from outdoors, glass doors, damper and click on Change. Now take a look at the Results, the load is about one half of what it was.
Adding a Kitchen
The Kitchen has an 11 foot north wall and an 18 foot east wall with a door and a window which is 3 ft by 3 ft 8 in. To add by new room, select the owner of the Room in the Tree, namely First Floor. Click on First Floor in the Tree twice and then again to bring up the Room Information Screen. Select Kitchen and click on Add. I think its always a good idea to add the components in the same order as the buttons are in the Button Bar, so click on the Floor button (or click on Kitchen in the Tree). Enter the Floor area of 11 by 18, I wont tell you exactly how, you probably know by now. Leave the selection at Over conditioned space and click on Add. Click on the wall button and add the North Wall. Do it on your own. Here is my screen before clicking Add
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Now add the 18 ft. East Wall. Try to do it on your own before reading this. Here are the steps; select Kitchen in the Tree, click on the Wall button, click on E in the compass, enter 18 in Length, click on the red Plus button, click on Add. Okay, now the Window. Make your screen look like mine, and click on Add
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Now we need to add the Door that is owned by this Wall. With E Wall selected in the Tree, click on the Door button. HVAC-Calc has already guessed that the square footage of the door is 18, and that is correct. If it wasnt you could replace 18 with the correct area. For the selections, select Wood, Solid and Metal Storm and then click on Add. We are finished with all the components owned by the Wall, so lets select Kitchen in the Tree and resume adding components owned by the Kitchen. The next button in order is Ceiling, click it. HVAC-Calc has again guessed at all the right answers, there is nothing for us to do but click Add. Gee this program is smart! Select Kitchen in the Tree again, The next button is People, but we have put our people in the Living Room. There is no Fireplace here but there is a Miscellaneous load so click on the Misc button. Read the Help Panel. Click on 1200 and then click on Add. Okay, there is no sense in boring you to death with entering the information for the rest of the rooms on the First Floor, but there are still some things to show you.
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When doing a Whole House calculation, follow these steps. Add the Job, Design Conditions and Infiltration Components as always. Then add the first Zone, usually First Floor. Then add a Room Component named All Rooms. Then add the Floor, Walls and so on for the entire first floor, the same as you would do for any room. If you have another Zone such as Basement or Second Floor, add it to the Job Component and then add another All Rooms Room Component. There is nothing special about the name All Rooms, you can call it anything you want, such as Complete Zone or whatever, I just happen to like All Rooms We will do the basement of this house as if we were doing a Whole House calculation. Feel free to click the Results tab any time you want to check on the progress.
Basement Walls
With All Rooms selected in the Tree, click on the Wall Button. Each wall consists of two types of wall, the above ground part and the below ground part. This means we can add 8 Wall Components. (I said that we can, not that we will). Lets start with the East Wall. Click on E for East in the compass and enter 51 for the length. We will do the below ground part first, so enter 5 for the height. (You can get rid of the 8 by either deleting it or double-clicking the word Height). Click the Plus Button. Make the selections as shown below, the click on Add.
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Now we will add the above ground part of the wall. Select All Rooms in the Tree (the owner of the Wall), and click on the Wall Button. Again it is East, enter the length of 51 and change the height to 3. In Step 2, select Masonry, above grade and R 5 in Step 3 and 8 or 12 in. Block in Step 4, then click on Add. The East Wall owns a Window so with E Wall selected in the Tree, click on the Window Button. Make your Window Information Screen look like the one below and click on Add.
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We are finished with the East Wall, and we could continue to do all the walls like this. However there is an easier way. If a wall doesnt have any glass in it, the direction it faces doesnt matter. This means that we could have entered all the below grade walls at once and we only need separate above grade walls for the ones with windows, namely the East and South Wall. Lets do that. Select E Wall BelowGr in the Tree. We are going to change this Wall Component so that it includes all four below grade sections of wall. To add on the West section, which is also 51 X 5, simply click on the Plus Button. Bingo, HVAC-Calc did the arithmetic for us. Now change the 51 to 29 for the North Wall. Click on the Plus Button once for North and again for the South Wall. Your Area should now read 800. Of course we havent made any lasting change until we click on Change. Now lets add the other two windowless above grade walls to the above grade East Wall we have already done. We wont include the South above grade wall because it has a window in it. Select E Wall in the Tree. Click on the Plus Button once to add in the West wall. Then change the length to 29 and click on the Plus Button once for the North Wall. This should give an area of 393. Click on Change. Okay, that was easy. Only one above grade wall to go, with a window. Select All Rooms and click on the Wall Button. Click on S for South and put the length in as 29, the height is probably already there as 3. Click on the Plus Button. Here is my screen.
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Click on Add. Now we need to add the window to the S Wall. Click the Window Button. Type 6 directly into the blue area box (even I can do 3 X 2 in my head). HVAC-Calc has made all the other selections for you, so click on Add.
Finished
Select All Rooms in the Tree and take a look at the buttons that are enabled in the Button Bar. There are no other components to add to the Basement! We dont add a Ceiling Component because above the ceiling is the first floor. No temperature difference means no heat transfer. No heat transfer, and not a floor, means we dont add it. Rule Number 1. So we are finished with the house, except we didnt do all of the first floor.
Loading in a Job
To view the reports, we will load in the Sample House that came with HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0. On the Menu, click on File and then click on Open Existing Job. (The menu is at the top of the screen and says File Reports Settings Help.) This will bring up the opening screen. Notice that the Job we just did is already in the list! We didnt even have to save it. Nor do we have to navigate around our hard drive trying to find files. Everything is just there automatically. I told you I like things simple.
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Select the Sample House as shown below and click on the Load Button on the right hand side.
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HVAC-Calc will make a report and put it on your screen ready for printing. Below is a picture of one. Do not be concerned if the numbers are different than yours, the sample house that ships with the program is not necessarily the same one that was used to make the manual. If you are using a lower screen resolution, you will have to scroll around to see it all. However, it is a report that was meant for printing, not viewing on screen.
To print the report, click on the Print Report button on the upper left of the report. Click on the Close button to get rid of it. Notice how HVAC-Calc immediately printed to your printer, instead of bringing up that annoying Choose Printer box. This is just something to save you time, however, if you would like to be able to choose printers, you can do that. To enable that Printer Choice box, on the Settings menu, select Allow Printer Choice, and from then on, you will be able to choose your printer.
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HVAC-Calc allows you to make a file on your hard drive which contains your chosen report in pdf format. To do so, click on the Save to PDF button. The usual Save As box pops up. HVAC-Calc makes a folder called HVAC-Calc Reports on the same hard drive that you have the program installed on, usually C:\HVAC-Calc Reports\. It also suggests a meaningful name for the report. Just click on the Save button and your report is saved in PDF format.
This shows that your total heat loss is 67,558 BTUH. This means that at the winter design temperature of 25 in Newville, the house will be losing 67,558 BTUs each hour. If the furnace puts out less than that many BTUs, the house will get cool. If the furnace can output say 80,000 BTUH, then the furnace will have to run for about 51 minutes of each hour to make up the 67,558. This, to me, is a properly sized furnace.
End of Tutorial
That is the end of the tutorial section of the manual. We covered most aspects of the core part of the program. There are still other things you will want to know, such as how to store your heading, how to register the program, how to make a copy of a job. Those items are covered in the How Do I section
How Do I
How Do I Register the Program
To register the program you are given a name and a number. On the menu, click on Settings and then click on Register Program. Thats the easy part. You will see there are two lines for your registration name. You will probably just need the top one. It will be clearly stated if you are to use two. First, delete the words Unregistered Trial Version. Do NOT use the space bar to delete the words, this would add an invisible space. Now here is the hard part. Type in your registration name. Yes, thats the part that will trip you up. It has to be exactly the same as it is in your registration e-mail or invoice. Same capital letters, same lower case letters, same commas, same periods, same same. After
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 typing in your Registration Name move the cursor to the Registration Number box by hitting the tab key or with your mouse and type in your registration number.
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Then click on OK and, if you didnt make any mistakes, you will see a success message. If you get a Not Successful message, just try again. Yes, it is possible we gave you the wrong number but, it is much more likely that you are missing a capital or a period or something. Important, you must register the program on each computer you want to run it on. If you change hard drives or computers, you must register it again.
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The report shows the number of CFM needed for heating and for cooling. You should size the ductwork for the larger of the two values, that is the value shown in the Both column. These values are automatically carried over to the Size Ducts Tool which is discussed next. Do not be concerned that the totals in the Both column are more than the ouput of the furnace. This is because you must size the ducts for the maximum air flow between heating and cooling.
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The Duct Sizing Tool is extremely flexible, useful and easy to use. Here are some of its functions:
Change CFM
Select the item in the Tree and then click on the Change CFM button. If the selected item is the House or a Zone, or a room with more than one outlet, then the new CFM is instantly split up among the children.
Split
Generally, 90 CFM is the maximum amount of air to put through one standard 4 X 10 floor outlet. If the room requires more than this, you can split it into to or more outlets. Select the room you wish to split and click on the Split button.
Delete
If you want to delete one of the outlets you made, select it and click on Delete. The CFM for the remaining outlets is automatically recalculated.
HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 say 25%. So that means you want the baseboards to be capable of radiating 3,000 BTUH. You need 5 feet of baseboard. Answer these two questions and click on OK.
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The End
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