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Price: $495 Rhvac, Drawing Board and Manual D Ductsize $1139 (save $100) Download Functional Demo Demonstration Limits New Features in Version 9 Upgrade Pricing Screenshots Sample Reports Rhvac Was First Manual J Program Buyer's Guide HVAC Load Calc Article
Drawing Board - Draw floor plans from within Rhvac and calculate loads from them automatically.
Proposal Maker - Create professional sales proposals and other documents linked to calculation results.
Manual D Ductsize Graphically design residential duct systems from within Rhvac and Drawing Board.
Bill of Materials Automatically generate parts list with ductwork takeoff from Manual D Ductsize.
ECA - Calculate vertical, horizontal, and slinky ground loops for geothermal design.
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Geothermal Design
Ground source heat pumps and direct exchange heat pumps that use geothermal energy are the most efficient HVAC units on the market today. The U.S. government is so impressed with geothermal heat pumps that a major tax incentive is being offered to help make these units more affordable. Calculation of Manual J HVAC loads for buildings using geothermal equipment is done no differently than for any other type of HVAC equipment. Rhvac calculates perfectly for all types of geothermal equipment. What is different about ground source heat pumps is that a "loop" design also needs to be performed. A loop is usually polyethylene tubing that is buried in the ground or submerged in a pond. This loop connects the heat pump to the ground or water. The length of tubing required in the loop is a special calculation. Elite Software offers a program called ECA (Earth Coupled Analysis) for the calculation of ground loops in horizontal, vertical, and "slinky" configurations. ECA can import all necessary data from Rhvac or be used stand alone. See more details on ECA here . Direct exchange heat pumps use copper tubing to connect the heat pump to the ground. Each manufacturer provides its own chart for sizing copper loops and thus loop sizing software is not required. Both ground source and direct exchange heat pumps are more expensive than standard air source heat pumps. A program such as Elite's Energy Audit is a great aid in showing customers the operating cost savings of all types of geothermal heat pumps. See more details on Energy Audit here . Up to Date with the Latest Construction Techniques In March of 2008 we added a wide variety of new spray foam and Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) roofs and walls from which to choose. These new roof and wall selections make it easy to do load calculations for the increasing number of houses being built with these technologies. Up to Date with the latest Manual J changes (Addenda A, B, C and D) Rhvac now incorporates the changes in each of the recently published addenda for Manual J. Addendum A: The Rhvac Help window now includes the list of "Do's and Don'ts" from this addendum. You can access the list by clicking the menu "Help | Manual J Do's and Don'ts." Addendum B: Uses the Hourly Fenestration Gain (HFG) procedure for room level loads whenever you have rooms in multiple zones within the same system. Also includes System Concept Warnings whenever a system has "excursion" as a result of not having adequate exposure diversity. Addendum C: Gives you much more control over duct loads and has an easier to understand and more flexible set of inputs to let you define the properties of your duct system more precisely. Allows for separate supply and return characteristics, as well as multiple duct location scenarios within the same system. Now you only need to enter one set of duct properties at the system level, instead of having to enter duct properties for each room. Addendum D: Includes more options to let you define the envelope construction tightness when determining infiltration. Also has a more accurate methodology of accounting for the effect of fireplaces on infiltration. Update Information Users of existing versions of Rhvac can upgrade to the latest version of Rhvac, supporting ACCA Manual J 8th edition, for a substantial discount over full purchase price. If you have Rhvac version 6, you can still download for free the final release of Rhvac 6.08, which incorporates a number of useful improvements. New Features in Version 9 Version 9 can be installed on the same computer as version 8, and will not interfere with version 8 at all. There is no problem in having both version 8 and version 9 on your computer at the same time. If you already have a license for version 8, see the upgrade pricing schedule . You may also want to check out the recent history page for version 9. Download the demo for version 9 here. Version 9 includes the following powerful new features that were not in version 8. Tabular Manual D Ductsize window : This new window lets you design a duct system using a new, easy-to-use interface that lets you lay your ducts out in a tree outline format. This window is by far our easiest to use duct design interface yet. Export to EnergyPro: Export a project file to this powerful energy analysis software, which you can purchase from Elite Software. Read more about EnergyPro here . ACCA Design Review Form data saved in project and printed on form: Saves you from having to fill out the form by hand if your local authorities are requiring you to provide this form. Saves multiple items of sensible and latent equipment loads for each room : Lets you precisely account for internal equipment loads such as kitchen appliances, electronics, etc.. Lets you choose from a list of equipment items from Manual J's Table 6B or enter your own. The Detailed Room Loads report now includes a new section that shows the gains from each piece of equipment you entered.
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Room Data The Room Data window is where you enter all the information about the room dimensions, as well as floor, roof, wall, glass, and door material information.
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Tabular Manual D Ductsize window This new window in Rhvac 9 makes it very easy to design a duct system.
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Equipment Cooling Loads window This new window in Rhvac 9 lets you define multiple items that produce sensible and latent gains. You can save as many items of equipment as you like in each room. The Detailed Room Loads report now includes a section that shows the loads from each piece of equipment you entered.
Sloped Ceiling Area Calculator This new dialog in Rhvac version 9 calculates the area of a room's sloped ceiling.
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Building Rotation Duct Size Preview This window shows you the room and duct airflows for each building rotation, as well as the maximum duct size of all rotations. It includes every duct in the project, whether from the automatic duct sizing of the main trunk and all runouts, from ducts defined with the Manual D Ductsize component in Drawing Board, or from ducts entered with the Tabular Manual D Ductsize window (pictured above).
Load Preview This window gives you an overall view of the project loads at each of the four calculation levels: Building, System, Zone and Room. For multizone systems the cooling and heating percentages for each zone are shown (outlined in RED in the following picture). Knowing these percentages helps you make the best decisions on assigning rooms to zones.
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Quick Sales Proposal Window The Quick Sales Proposal window, shown below, lets you create a basic sales proposal. You can see the report that this window generates here.
Radiant Floor Properties This dialog (shown with its dropdown help window, below) lets you document the type of floor to be used as well as enter the tubing spacing and heat per area. Rhvac calculates the required amount of tubing to meet the load, the amount needed to fill the room, the total floor heat output, and the amount of supplemental heat required to meet the design load. All of these results are shown on the Radiant Floor Report.
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Drawing Board Window Rhvac includes a Drawing Board window, which operates at the demo level until you purchase a separate license for Drawing Board. The Drawing Board window enables you to enter your room data by simply drawing the floor plan on the screen. Below is a screenshot showing a floor plan created from within Rhvac.
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