Attached is a commercial hot water system modeled. The output drops suddenly after the first 7 hours of simulation.
I cannot explain the behaviour. Looks like a bug in SAM 2013.9.20
Here is how the Hourly Energy and Q delivered look in the simulation. Steep drop after hr 7 and stays that way rest of the way. Looks like a bug. Should be getting about 17% capacity utilization and 0.4 solar fraction.
Hourly Energy (kWh) Q delivered (kWh)
71.7983 93.7972
41.0276 53.5499
46.156 60.1885
56.4129 73.4957
102.569 133.503
225.652 293.421
456.432 592.878
0.616632 0.649087
0.49534 0.521411
0.375786 0.395564
0.311782 0.328192
0.246098 0.25905
0.250038 0.263198
0.245113 0.258014
0.25246 0.265747
0.21945 0.231
0.361399 0.38042
0.414035 0.435826
0.445218 0.468651
0.404604 0.425899
0.367733 0.387087
0.349161 0.367538
0.331162 0.348591