Did 'Manual J' calculations...

[neophytes serendipity]

Thanks for the education. I plugged in 91%RH and 96 db [numbers that I understand] and came up with 240 grains of moisture. Plugged that into HVAC-calc and the numbers jumped. The system still works, but it will probably be running continuously in the second stage through most of the hottest months. I may go back, now that I understand this, and do a month by month assessment.

I would think that the HVAC Calc program uses the same range and grains tables listed in the Manual J book as a basis for calculations.

Moving outside of those values may create more problems than solving them.

Having performed longhand residential load calcs and using HVAC Calc, there are differences in the data that can be input between the two methods.

I suppose, if you are bored, a long form manual J and results from HVAC Calc could be compared.

[Thebil Illpay]

Manual J summer design conditions for N.O. is 92 degrees dry bulb/78 degrees wet bulb. That gives you a relative humidity % of 54, a dew point of 73, and grains of moisture per pound of dry air of 127.

Well thanks for that information - even if you shouldn't have told me. I just selected the highest I found on published charts to see what would happen.
The default setting for New Orleans on HVAC-calc is 100 grains. I'll go plug in 127 and see what happens. It's kind of fun.

EDITid it. At 75 degrees indoor it changed the results to 22391 sensible and 4324 latent, total 26,715. At 70 degrees it brought both components up to 29 and change. That's only figuring two people.

[Shophound]

Well thanks for that information - even if you shouldn't have told me. I just selected the highest I found on published charts to see what would happen.
The default setting for New Orleans on HVAC-calc is 100 grains. I'll go plug in 127 and see what happens. It's kind of fun.

EDITid it. At 75 degrees indoor it changed the results to 22391 sensible and 4324 latent, total 26,715. At 70 degrees it brought both components up to 29 and change. That's only figuring two people.

I only told you so you'd have good information.