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ACCA Weather Station Incorrect

All of the ACCA Weather Station options offered within the application are within the California Central Valley which are at a very low elevation and very hot. I entered my address in the application, it correctly showed my location on Google Maps. However the property is located at 4,700 ft elevation and although it may get to 90 F during the summer, winter temps are commonly below 32 F and go as low as 11 F. Plus the location will commonly have 4-20 total feet of snow over the winter. My question is simple. How do I change the ACCA Weather Station to something that is more appropriate? Possible Lake Tahoe, CA, or Arnold, CA, or any Northern California location in the 4,000-6,000 ft. elevation.

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Carl

Carl Swirsding

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On the Project -> Design Condition screen you can manually override summer and winter outdoor design temps. The program will provide the 5 closest weather stations to the address entered on the project screen. If you select the one with the closest altitude, you can then override the temperatures if they are not accurate or a local code requires specific temperatures to be used. If you create a ticket with us we can help identify the station with the closest altitude to the address. We tend to stick with the weather station data in the ACCA Manual J book and not allow custom weather data to be entered because more than likely the user would not know the additional information we need, like design grains at various relative humidities. 

It's important to note that altitude has a relatively minor effect on the total cooling load. Every 2000 ft reduces the infiltration, ventilation, and humidification loads loads by approximately 6%. However, higher altitude climates tend to be dryer, so infiltration and ventilation cooling loads are often low, making the overall impact fairly negligible.

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I'm having the same issue with elevation. Has this been fixed?

Fletcher Otwell 0 votes
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