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2A) Demand Based Heating and Cooling Systems


System operation as a whole consists of selecting which zone controllers will have heating and cooling
weighted votes used by the RTU controller to which they are attached. The weighted heating and cooling
demand values from the selected master zones are then used by the RTU controller to determine if heating
or cooling action is required for the system as a whole.

Both internal and external zones are typically serviced by the same unit. This means that the system may
be exposed to conflicting heating and cooling demands in mid-seasons. The conflicting demand conditions
are addressed with the heating and cooling lockouts based on the outside air temperature value at the
RTU.

The heating or cooling action at the zone is dependent on how the RTU controller treats and calculates
what will be delivered point in time to the zones. Many factors can influence the delivery or availability of
hot air or cold air to satisfy the current zone demand point in time.

The following is an example of a RTU system mode calculation based on highest, average of the three
highest demands or the average of the five highest demands.

Example 1 with 3 voting master zones only

Voting Zone 1

Voting Zone 2

Voting Zone 3

RTU Control Type

Current heat

demand

Current heat

demand

Current heat

demand

Highest

Average of 3

highest

50% 0% 0%

Heat weight set Heat weight set Heat weight set

50% 100% 100%

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

25%

0%

0%

25%

8.3%

Current cool

demand

Current cool

demand

Current cool

demand

0% 100% 100%

Cool weight set

Cool weight set

Cool weight set

100% 100% 50%

Resulting cool

weight to RTU

Resulting cool
weight to RTU

Resulting cool

weight to RTU

0%

100%

50%

100%

50%

It can be seen here that the resulting demand used by the RTU controller for the three master voting
zones are different and will result in different heating and cooling actions simply based on the RTU
configuration.

Example 2 with 3 voting master zones only

Voting Zone 1

Voting Zone 2

Voting Zone 3

RTU Control Type

Current heat

demand

Current heat

demand

Current heat

demand

Highest

Average of 3

highest

100% 0% 0%

Heat weight set Heat weight set Heat weight set

100% 100% 100%

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

Resulting heat
weight to RTU

100%

0%

0%

100%

33.3%

Current cool

demand

Current cool

demand

Current cool

demand

0% 100% 100%

Cool weight set

Cool weight set

Cool weight set

100% 75% 75%

Resulting cool

weight to RTU

Resulting cool
weight to RTU

Resulting cool

weight to RTU

0%

75%

75%

75%

50%


It can be seen here that the resulting demand used by the RTU controller for the three master voting
zones are different and will result in different heating and cooling action simply based on the RTU