Heating and Cooling Loads
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Using NEEP Software to Size a Heat Pump
The Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership provides a tool for analyzing heating and cooling–loads data to inform location-specific selection of heat pump equipment
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How to Cheat on a Manual J Load Calculation
Overblown heating and cooling loads lead to oversized HVAC systems and equipment
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The Impact of Air Leaks on Heating and Cooling Loads
A look into how Manual J calculates air infiltration and the ways that information affects the sizing of HVAC equipment
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Planning a Furnace-to-Ducted Heat Pump Retrofit, Part 3: Sizing Calculations
A comprehensive explanation of how to perform aggressive Manual J calculations to ensure properly sized HVAC equipment
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The Value and Limits of Manual J
These basic energy models can teach us more about our plans than what heating and cooling loads to expect
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Oversizing a Minisplit Heat Pump System
Without knowing the proper heating and cooling loads, you can lose the benefit of a variable-capacity HVAC system
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The BS* + Beer Show: Energy Modeling and Load Calculations
An all-star team of experts clues us into a few of the many nuances surrounding these methodologies
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Does Your Electrification Project Require a Service Upgrade?
Step-by-step calculations for determining the capacity of your current service
