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Flexible Duct Performance & Installation Standards, page 11, Fifth Edition, by Air Diffusion Council
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Item, Section 4: Installation Requirements
Second and Third floors:
1. Issue: Points 1 and 2 for first floor must be followed in these floors too.
2. Issue: Found a zone system servicing at these floors. The zones are not
balanced in sizes, the 3rd floor zone is significantly smaller than 2nd floor zone.
Its creating a huge static pressure at blower motor when bigger zone is
closing. At this time the bypass damper is opening all of way making the
furnace and supply plenum to condensate a lot.
Recommendation: My recommendation, in this case, is to remove the zone
system and make this unit a regular system with no zones. After some
calculations its the best way to fix this issue. We must to install a Honeywell
VisionPro 8321 Thermostat at second floor and then install an indoor sensor
Honeywell C7189U at third floor to get an average on temperature reading
between 2nd and 3rd floor.
3. Issue:Found 3rd floor bedroom without any return grill. There is not any way
to add a return duct at this location.
Recommendation: My recommendation is, after calculations based on
Manual D, Table A 1-2, to cut the door at bottom 2.5 inches to let return enough
airflow and improve the air movement.
Design issues:
2nd and 3rd floors:
1. Issue: Found the unit for this floors significantly oversized. According to ACCA
Manual S Residential Equipment Selection, the cooling equipment dont
must be oversized more than 15 % of the Manual J calculations. Before there
was installed a 3.5 tons units. According to Manual S this system could be
replaced for a 4 Ton system. A 5 Ton systems represent 42 % of oversize
what is not correct at all.
Recommendation: In my opinion we must to replace the outside unit for a 4
tons condenser unit M/N ASXC18 0601A*. We can let the 5 Ton Unit because
in the AHRI document # 3642651 3 said that this combination of unit is possible
to meet the performance required. At this time, of course, its important to
replace the TXV for a 4 tons TXV. To understand why its my recommendation
and what we can do to avoid it, see the topic: System Performance.
Airflow issues:
1. Based on next table We must to:
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See ASXC18 Product Data at page 23.
Air balance procedure: Date: 05/27/2017
Address: 1903 Parklake Village, Katy, Houston, Tx, 77450.
Second Floor
Living Room 201
Bedroom 1 162
(Son)
Bed Closet 1 29
Bedroom 2 57
Daughter
Bed Closet 2 40
Bath 1 32
Bath 2 27
Guest Room 133
Guest Closet 60
Total 741
Third Floor
Office 35
Family Room 44
Music Room 51
Closet 9
Total 139
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