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AUDIT FEATURES
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The Elite Software AUDIT Program calculates monthly and annual heating and cooling costs for residential and light commercial buildings. Virtually any type of cooling and heating system can be simulated by AUDIT including standard DX, evaporative, air source heat pumps, water source heat pumps, York Triathlon, and all types of fossil fueled furnaces and boilers. An optional version of AUDIT with appliance capabilities can calculate appliance and hot water energy use as well.AUDIT uses heating degree days, weather bin data, and full load cooling hours in its calculations. Weather data for over 300 cities throughout the world is built-in to AUDIT and additional weather data can be easily added.Along with calculating energy costs, AUDIT also performs an economic analysis that allows you to compare system types and costs over any given study period. There is even a loan and lease analysis report designed to demonstrate affordability of better systems by showing that the effective net monthly cost is often very low when monthly energy savings are considered.To make system comparisons easy, AUDIT allows you to manually enter equipment data or automatically look it up for you from ARI and GAMA equipment data files. AUDIT provides a wide selection of nicely formatted color charts, graphs, and reports. The DOS version of AUDIT provides the same basic features as the Windows version, but it is less capable and you should call Elite Software for details on the differences. PROGRAM INPUT Two types of data are requested: general project data and specific HVAC system data. The general project data includes the summer and winter design conditions, total cooling hours, the project name and location, client information, fuel cost data, optional appliance data, and the design heating and cooling loads. The HVAC system data includes specific information on the system type, model number, efficiency, cost, capacity, and fuel used. Up to six HVAC systems may be defined per project and each system can have a backup heating system specified as well. Economic data concerning initial system cost, interest and inflation rates, and loan amounts can also be entered. In order to minimize redundant input, AUDIT can also import data from project data files created by the Elite Software RHVAC program that performs Manual J HVAC load calculations. EQUIPMENT SELECTION Although you can manually enter system information on equipment from any manufacturer, AUDIT also allows you to quickly select model numbers from both the ARI and GAMA equipment databases. By selecting a model number, all the information for the model is looked up and read into the program. AUDIT can look up equipment data for all the manufacturers (over 70) whose products are listed in the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) directory and the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association (GAMA) directory. The ARI and GAMA database disks are $50 each and may be obtained from Elite Software. PROGRAM OUTPUT The AUDIT program provides numerous color presentation quality reports including a title page, project summary, system comparisons, appliance analysis, hot water heating, investment, loan, and lease analysis, line graphs, pie charts, and bar graphs. The reports can be previewed on screen or printed on any model printer supported by Windows. Any combination of detailed and summary reports can be selected for printing by the user. All reports reflect the input data that caused the calculated results. Shown below are just a few of the many reports and graphs that can be printed. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Our Windows software applications are compatible with all Windows Operating
Systems.(Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP) The minimum hardware requirements to run our application are the same as the minimum hardware requirements to run the operating system which the application is installed
on click here for details. Additionally, 25 MB of hard disk space is required to install and run
AUDIT. Click Here to Download your Free Evaluation Copy of AUDIT for Windows Audit has been Updated to import the latest
versions of the new RHVAC project files.
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