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Dear,
type 5a has a small problem in the input data. If your "Source side inlet temperature" temperature is equal to 20 Celsius OR 20 Kelvin, THE RESULTS will be the same. In other words, "Unit conversion" does not work properly.
In TRNSYS18, there is pop-up notification that reads, "WARNING: Changing an input unit will not affect the value calculated by any variables connected to this input. Only the constant initial value will be converted." In other words, if the input is connected to the output of an equation block or any other component, the input's units will be the default units for that input in the proforma, not the chosen units. This is true for all TRNSYS Types, not just Type 5a.
A_Weiss 25/06/2024 10:41 pm
The same behavior was true in TRNSYS17 and all earlier versions of TRNSYS, the automatic pop-up notification was added with TRNSYS18 to make the behavior more explicitly clear.
