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Erratic humidity control when >1 piece of HVAC equipment in a zone
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Description
One air loop w/ DX coil + VRF fan coil = poor humidity control
I've defined a system with one zone, one air loop, one VRF system, all supposed to control to a specified temperature and relative humidity. Temp control is good. Humidity control is not even close
Details
Some additional details for this issue (if relevant):
- E+ v9.3
- indoor growing facility with equal values for:
- lots of latent load, defined as a constant rate for 12 hours, then a different rate for the next 12 hours
- negative value sensible load representing the evaporative cooling effect of the latent load
- sensible load to represent the heat added by a zone dehumidifer
- additional sensible load to represent the heat added by a zone dehumidifier's compressor
- Mike Witte took a look at the problem and felt it was a bug, so I'm reporting it.
- Haven't used GitHub before- I hope this is enough info!
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VRF Humidity control 1zone v93 idf.txt
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported humidity-control behavior with the attached “VRF Humidity control 1zone v93 idf.txt” input in EnergyPlus, focusing on the one-zone air loop with a DX coil and VRF system. Compare the simulated relative humidity with the specified control target and identify the relevant HVAC humidity-control path; done means the combined equipment controls humidity as expected without regressing temperature control.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100