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95% of Zones Are Designed Inaccurately 14 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
We recently did some looking around at how our users are designing systems and we found that only 5% of all the zones designed in LoopLink actually use correction factors. When we eliminated the corr...
C-C Spacing Down to 10ft 18 Jul 2013 | 02:24 am
By, Doug Carruthers By popular request from our users, we reduced the minimum center to center bore spacing (SB) for vertically bored ghex down to 10ft from 15ft. We originally set the minimum at 15...
Fixed Length Tips/Tricks 10 Jul 2013 | 02:25 am
By, Doug Carruthers LoopLink’s Fixed Length Mode is a deceptively simple tool that is doing a lot more work behind the scenes than you might expect. Practically, there is no direct way to answer the ...
Our Work Is Never Over 10 Jul 2013 | 02:17 am
By, Doug Carruthers LoopLink took a page out of the Daft Punk playbook this week and got Harder/Better/Faster/Stronger. After our Major Update of 2013 we found a few performance issues that turned ou...
Heating/Cooling Start Temperatures 10 Jun 2013 | 02:33 am
By, Doug Carruthers Heating/Cooling Start Temperatures define the outdoor air temperatures at which a building owner will begin operating their heating or cooling system. In ASHRAE manuals and HVAC b...
Gain Level is Now Building Type 10 Jun 2013 | 02:29 am
In the past, LoopLink asked you to define a Gain Level on the project details page which roughly described the amount of heat energy emitted from people and devices in the space; commonly known as int...
Heating Offset 10 Jun 2013 | 02:28 am
By, Doug Carruthers The prevailing wisdom in peak load calculation is to ignore internal gains (heat energy generated by occupants and equipment) on the heating side. This approach guarantees that th...
LoopLink Update 2013 10 Jun 2013 | 01:53 am
By, Doug Carruthers Another year… another major LoopLink update. This year’s major update includes the usual bug squishes and nip/tuck tweaks to layout and interface but the really big stuff this ye...
A Friendly Wager 22 Mar 2013 | 06:34 pm
The engineers at Geo-Connections are almost exclusively, South Dakota State University grads and we have an abiding love for basketball. Brian Hayden of HeatSpring fame is a long time friend of ours a...
New Horizontal Configuration Added 21 Mar 2013 | 07:27 pm
Late last week, we added the 6-Pipe Rectangular configuration to the standard horizontally trenched GHEX design options. The new configuration model is also called a 2-layer 3-pipe and is one we were ...
