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How to model IGUs with U 0.42 / R13.6 without H2K Erroring?

  • 31 Aug 2021 1:51 PM
    Message # 10972416
    Deleted user

    Working on an energy model which is utilizing LiteZone IGUs with awesome performance U 0.42 / SHGC 0.167.  Of course, when I enter the data, H2K errors.

    Any workaround other than increasing the U-value until H2K does not error?

  • 31 Aug 2021 3:57 PM
    Reply # 10972624 on 10972416

    Hi Wayne, did you try the code editor, legacy user defined. I've never modeled anything with that performance level but it seemed to work for me. I've attached some screenshots of what I did.

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  • 1 Sep 2021 10:06 AM
    Reply # 10974420 on 10972416
    Deleted user

    Thanks Toby, did not even consider the legacy option.

  • 1 Sep 2021 11:05 AM
    Reply # 10974487 on 10972416

    Would their data be just the center of glass and just the glass itself or do they have actual NFRC ratings?  Frame heights?

  • 2 Sep 2021 2:01 PM
    Reply # 10976830 on 10972416
    Deleted user

    As this is an IGU framed into the wall, so essentially no frame.  In this circumstance, if it was a Passive House, we would get into the details of thermal bridging due to installation. 

    Though I have used their whole glass values, in theory we should be using center of glass as well as glass edge (spacer), so my assumption is that the spacer is included within their whole IGU performance numbers.

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