ZipTest Pro3™ Building & Energy Diagnostics Software Specifications and Instructions

The complete software instruction book for the ZipTest Pro3™ software for the Texas instruments TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator may be viewed and printed. Make sure to select the proper version - 1.0 or 1.1 - for your software. If you have version 1.0 of the software and wish to obtain a free copy of version 1.1, contact us at ZipTest@karg.com.

ZipTest Pro3 Building & Energy Diagnostics Software, IP edition, version 1.1 (142 pages, 2 MB). These are the instructions for the latest edition of the software for the Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium calculator. This edition was released in February 2011.

ZipTest Pro3 Building & Energy Diagnostics Software, IP edition, version 1.0 (140 pages, 2 MB). These are the instructions for the first edition of the software for the Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium calculator.



ZipTest Pro2™ Building Diagnostics Software Specifications and Instructions

The complete 132 page instruction book for the ZipTest Pro2™ software for the Texas instruments TI-86 graphing calculator may be viewed and printed in chapters. The chapter PDFs are listed in order and have sequentially numbered pages. If you want to get an intimate idea of what the ZipTest Pro2™ software can do, view and print the entire instruction book. If you are interested in some but not all of its features, view and print what you wish. These files will probably look better printed than viewed on you monitor. The size of each file is noted.

Entire ZipTest Pro2 manual without Texas Instruments Financial Functions (120 pages, 1.36 MB)

Texas Instruments Financial Functions (12 pages, 111.8 KB)

Below, you can download each section of the software instruction manual.



Sections of the ZipTest Pro2™ Manual

1. Cover page and front matter, including software license agreement and table of contents. (pages i - vi, 93.6 KB)

2. Building Tightness Limit Calculations for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. This includes the original BTL routine, the BTLa routine and the new 62.2 routine based on ASHRAE Standards 62.2, 119, and 136. (pages 1 - 24, 302.9 KB)

3. Energy Index Calculations
in units of Btu per square foot, heating degree day. This calculation can be done for seven different fuels. (pages 25 - 32, 82.2 KB)

4. Combustion Venting Safety Calculations: Depressurization Tightness Limit program. Calculates CFM50 minimum, exhaust fan CFM maximum, and resulting pressure difference in Pascals. (pages 33 - 40, 81.7 KB)

5. Pressure Diagnostics program. Includes Minneapolis Blower Door, Model 3; Minneapolis Duct Blaster; envelope series leakage testing (hole, door, and vent methods); duct series leakage testing (add-a-hole, blower-door-subtraction, full-Nelson, and Nelson-with-NFR-twist methods). (pages 41 - 58, 170.9 KB)

6. Weatherization Cost-Effective Guideline program. This program is vital for performing effective blower door-guided air sealing. (pages 59 - 66, 96.5 KB)

7. Advance Zone Pressure Diagnostics program. With the help of a blower door, this program determines the amount of air leakage through pressure boundaries and predicts connections among as many as four building zones. (pages 67 - 82, 212.1 KB)

7a. Advance Zone Pressure Diagnostics form for a single-zone test. This page is included with number 7 above. This file is only the form for the single-zone test. (one page, 32.1 KB)

7b. Advance Zone Pressure Diagnostics form for a one- to four-zone test. This page is included with number 7 above. This file is only the form for the one- to four-zone test. (one page, 34.6 KB).

8. Multi-Point Blower Door and Duct Analyzer Testing: Power Regression Analysis. (pages 83 - 88) (80 KB)

9. Equation Nuggets, 50 relevant equations that can be solved with the TI-86 Solver Function. (pages 89 - 110) (246.3 KB)

10a. Financial Functions 1. Introduction to an assembly language program from Texas Instruments. The instruction to Financial Functions has been split into two files to make it easier to download. (pages 111 - 112, 64.3 KB)

10b. Financial Functions 2. Texas Instruments instructions to an assembly language program from Texas Instruments. The instruction to Financial Functions has been split into two files to make it easier to download. (pages 113 - 124, 111.8 KB)




ZipTest Pro™ Software Instructions
Please note, these instructions are for an older version of the software

ZipTest Pro™ Building Diagnostics Software Specifications and Instructions

The complete 100 page instruction book for the ZipTest Pro™ software for the Texas instruments TI-86 graphing calculator may be viewed and printed in chapters. The chapter PDF (Portable Document Files) are listed in order and have sequentially numbered pages. If you want to get an intimate idea of what the ZipTest Pro™ software can do, view and print the entire instruction book. If you are interested in some but not all of its features, view and print what you wish. These files will probably look better printed than viewed on you monitor. The size of each file is noted.

Entire ZipTest Pro™ manual. (100 pages, 7742 KB)

Below, you can download each section of the software instruction manual



Sections of the ZipTest Pro™ Manual

1. Cover page and front matter, including software license agreement and table of contents. (pages i - vi, 359 KB)

2. Building Tightness Limit Calculations for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality
. This includes the original BTL routine and the BTLa routine based on ASHRAE Standards 62, 119, and 136. This new procedure calculates Effective Leakage Area (ELA), Equivalent Leakage Area (EqLA), CFMnatural, ACHnatural, Target ELA, Target CFM, Target CFM50, and calculates required ventilation in tight houses. (pages 1 - 18, 2206 KB)

3. Energy Index Calculations in units of Btu per square foot, heating degree day. This calculation can be done for seven different fuels. (pages 19 - 26, 87 KB)

4. Combustion Venting Safety Calculations: Depressurization Tightness Limit program. Calculates CFM50 minimum, exhaust fan CFM maximum, and resulting pressure difference in Pascals. (pages 27 - 34, 81 KB)

5. Pressure Diagnostics program. Includes Minneapolis Blower Door, Model 3; Minneapolis Duct Blaster; envelope series leakage testing (hole, door, and vent methods); duct series leakage testing (add-a-hole, blower-door-subtraction, full-Nelson, and Nelson-with-NFR-twist methods). (pages 35 - 52, 169 KB)

6. Multi-Point Blower Door and Duct Analyzer Testing: Power Regression Analysis. (pages 53 - 58, 80 KB)

7. Equation Nuggets, 50 relevant equations that can be solved with the TI-86 Solver Function. (pages 59 - 80, 1719 KB)

8. Financial Functions, an assembly language program from Texas Instruments. (pages 81- 94, 3058 KB)  
 
 

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