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Heat Loss Calculations
Hi All,
Does anybody know of any good Free Heat Loss programs around that they could recommend. Thanks in advance. Andy |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:07:49 +0000, AndyHingston
wrote: Hi All, Does anybody know of any good Free Heat Loss programs around that they could recommend. Thanks in advance. Andy The Myson one is fairly reasonable although not on their web site at the present. If you send me an email, I'll send you a copy. -- ..andy To email, substitute .nospam with .gl |
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Andy Hall wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:07:49 +0000, AndyHingston wrote: Hi All, Does anybody know of any good Free Heat Loss programs around that they could recommend. Thanks in advance. Andy The Myson one is fairly reasonable although not on their web site at the present. If you send me an email, I'll send you a copy. Alternatively OpenOffice is free and has a spreadsheet, or you may already have Excel :-) IOW you don't need a program to do the calcs for you: you can do them yourself, and a spreadsheet takes most of the graft out of it. |
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"AndyHingston" wrote in message ... Hi All, Does anybody know of any good Free Heat Loss programs around that they could recommend. Thanks in advance. Andy -- AndyHingston This one is ok from Barlo radiators - http://www.barlo.co.uk/pages/download.cfm Dave |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:39:12 +0000, John Stumbles
wrote: Andy Hall wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:07:49 +0000, AndyHingston wrote: Hi All, Does anybody know of any good Free Heat Loss programs around that they could recommend. Thanks in advance. Andy The Myson one is fairly reasonable although not on their web site at the present. If you send me an email, I'll send you a copy. Alternatively OpenOffice is free and has a spreadsheet, or you may already have Excel :-) IOW you don't need a program to do the calcs for you: you can do them yourself, and a spreadsheet takes most of the graft out of it. True, although you then have to find the tables of U values. Bear in mind the formula or U value factors for floor heat loss of ground floors due to perimeter and area. -- ..andy To email, substitute .nospam with .gl |
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Thanks for your prompt reply. I am not sure if I need to configure things differently in the CP, but I am unable to send an email to you? I have mine setup so that users can email me or send PM. Regards Andy |
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I did find this one last night and it has most certainly given me some figures, although I had a lot of trouble with missing values when switching between screens. Although I also read on this group somewhere that it may not be too accurate. I have added 20% for hot water and 10% for other losses to the final sum. Does anyboy know if these are the correct allowances? Regards Andy |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:20:39 +0000, AndyHingston
wrote: Andy Hall Wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:07:49 +0000, AndyHingston wrote: - The Myson one is fairly reasonable although not on their web site at the present. If you send me an email, I'll send you a copy.-Andy, Thanks for your prompt reply. You're welcome. I am not sure if I need to configure things differently in the CP, but I am unable to send an email to you? The CP? If you follow the instructions in my signature and apply to my email address it should work - i.e. andyhAThallDOTgl replacing the capitalised bits with punctuation symbols. I have mine setup so that users can email me or send PM. Regards Andy -- ..andy To email, substitute .nospam with .gl |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:26:05 +0000, AndyHingston
wrote: logized Wrote: "AndyHingston" wrote in message .. - This one is ok from Barlo radiators - http://www.barlo.co.uk/pages/download.cfm Dave-Thanks Dave, I did find this one last night and it has most certainly given me some figures, although I had a lot of trouble with missing values when switching between screens. Although I also read on this group somewhere that it may not be too accurate. I have added 20% for hot water and 10% for other losses to the final sum. Does anyboy know if these are the correct allowances? Regards Andy There are a few points with these programs. 1) Check that the U values are accurate for the surfaces in question. You can do this from figures in the Approved Document to part L1 of the Building Regulations on the ODPM web site, for example. 2) The heat loss through air changes can be significant and difficult to estimate. The programs give the industry standard values for air changes for different rooms. Adjust them if you have reason to believe that they are different for you. 3) The cylinder factor is there as a hangover from when boilers heated cylinders by gravity all the time. If you are going for a system with diverter valve and hot water priority, then you don't need this allowance. 4) There are other possible factors like exposure of the house and whether or not the heating is used intermittently. Add those in if they apply. -- ..andy To email, substitute .nospam with .gl |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:11:58 +0000, AndyHingston
wrote: I am not sure if I need to configure things differently in the CP, but I am unable to send an email to you?- The CP? - CP= Control Panel for user settings on this Forum. Ah. This is presumably on a web site access? Newsreader software has different arrangements - If you follow the instructions in my signature and apply to my email address it should work - i.e. andyhAThallDOTgl replacing the capitalised bits with punctuation symbols. - I have mine setup so that users can email me or send PM. Regards Andy-Andy, not sure why I cannot see any mail details in your signature...strange. Anyway, my email address is if you could send the program there it would be very much appreciated. Since it's fairly large, I will use a service called Yousendit. This allows me to upload, then you get an email and can download. -- ..andy To email, substitute .nospam with .gl |
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