[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Furnace Efficiency Question

[Keith Winston]

I'm sorry Steve, I was really responding to Kathy through your email. I 
didn't mean YOUR heat loss calc, but hers! I get sloppy when I move too 
fast...

Keith


Steve Houlihan wrote:
> HVAC-Calc assumes 71 and 38 as design temps for Santa Cruz and does 
> account for bodies in the house and size and orientation of all 
> windows.  I don't have, and don't need, AC even though it gets over 
> 100 a few days each year. Typical Summer day is in the low 80's. It is 
> a little colder up here in the Santa Cruz Mountains (only 800 feet 
> elevation) than it is down in Santa Cruz itself so the Winter design 
> temp may be a little high.
>
> As I mentioned in another post yesterday, Sacramento is in the Central 
> Valley and is in a whole different climate than the coast or Coastal 
> Range were I am.
>
> Steve
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Winston" 
> <keith at earthsunenergy.com>
> To: "Greenbuilder list" <greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Furnace Efficiency Question
>
>
>> Also, if you did your heat loss calc with 100 or, gawdforbid, 110F as
>> your "design" temp, it'll be way off. The design temp for your climate
>> (assuming you're close enough to Sacramento, the closest I found) is 
>> 90F.
>>
>> Keith
>>
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