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Issue overview
When modeling HPWHs, E+ only allows the minimum temperature for HP operation to go as low as -5 C. This limit seems to be hard coded into the water heater code (see https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/blob/0b1a165e0aa6b1f9fc88991c987673fdcd366dad/src/EnergyPlus/WaterThermalTanks.cc#L1537-L1544), so there doesn't seem to be any way to work around this. There are several products on the market that can operate at much lower temperatures than -5 C, such as the SanCO2 which can operate below -30 C (https://www.eco2waterheater.com/_files/ugd/e88920_293f399a2a3a432396b1805a76f21c80.pdf). To be able to properly model these products, we'd need to lower this limit. My suggestion would be to set this to at least -40 C for products like the SanCO2. It'd also be nice to move this lower limit to the .idd rather than hard coding in the event that someone needs to lower this further for some new product with an even broader operating range.
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