Friday, February 2, 2007

HPwES First Look at Results

Mark Shadowen of Comfort by Design came by today to deliver the results of the diagnostics tests they did on January 9th. Lots of good information. I still have to scan it, and digest it, but here are a few nuggets:

Duct leakage:
- Total system airflow (based on fan curve and measured static pressure of .85"water column) is 1,050 cfm
- Supply airflow 675 cfm (36% leakage)
- Return airflow 672 cfm (35% leakage)
Infiltration: 0.52 air changes per hour (fairly tight)

Heating system:
- load 31 kBtuh
- furnace size 110kBtuh input, derated by 12% for altitude and 79% effic =>76 kBtuh output
- oversized by 250% (2.5 times)

Cooling system:
- load 1.8 tons
- AC size 2.5 tons
- oversized by 139%

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