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Teamwork
Liebert
®
iCOM
®
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Figure 64 Teamwork Mode 1, serial staging
4.2.4 Teamwork Mode 2
Teamwork Mode 2 is designed to prevent units within a group from working against each other or
“fighting.” It is best applied in large rooms with unbalanced heat loads. In Teamwork Mode 2, all
parameters are shared equal to Mode 1, and Unit #1 averages all of the available unit sensor readings on
the network to define whether there is a cooling, heating, dehumidification or humidification request.
If there is a cooling request, all units are released to start cooling resources according to their own
temperature readings; heating is disabled for all units and vice versa. Same for humidity control.
If the network average would ask for 0% proportional band, the most demanding request (highest or
lowest temperature of all units, highest or lowest humidity of all units) would be used to define the
operation to be performed.
Teamwork Mode 2 does not rotate; unevenly distributed working hours to be expected. Autoset will
not adjust the proportional band in this mode.
4.2.5 Teamwork Mode 3 (Optimized Aisle)
Teamwork Mode 3 can be selected when the units are set to operate in Optimized Aisle Control mode
and have been connected in a unit-to-unit network. Teamwork provides coordination between the
units that will prevent “fighting” by not allowing units to operate in conflicting modes of operation at
the same time by selecting which mode to operate within based on the average of the collective unit
sensors (Cooling vs. Heating and Humidifying vs. Dehumidifying). For additional details, see 3.9 -
Liebert Optimized Aisle Control.
Teamwork Mode 3 allows the cooling capacity (Supply Sensor) to operate as a local control by
removing only the amount of load required to maintain the discharge air temperature at each unit.
This allows for an unbalanced room load while maintaining a consistent discharge air temperature.
The fan speed is controlled by the remote rack sensors of all units, providing a controlled delivery
method of the air to the cold aisle. In raised floor applications, Liebert iCOM units will share sensor
information to achieve even under-floor air distribution. This distribution is achieved by operating all
fans in parallel, which will also yield the greatest energy efficiency.
Figure 65 shows the difference in both under-floor air distribution and energy consumption when
Variable Fan speed and Teamwork Mode 3 are applied to the Liebert cooling units. The example on
the left is using the standard standby configuration; the example on the right is utilizing Teamwork
Mode 3. The units below are assuming that the fan power consumed at each unit is 8.1kW when
operating at 100%.
NOTE
In Teamwork Mode 2, all units must have the same setpoints. The units’ proportional band,
deadband and related settings may differ.
C1 C2
cooling
+100 %
0%
1/2 Proportional Band
+temp.
Unit 2 Deviation : 20%
Setpoint
C1 C2
cooling
+100%
0%
1/2 Proportional Band
+temp.
Setpoint
0%
Setpoint
- temp.
-100 %
+temp.
1/2 Proportional Band +100%
1/2 Proportional Band
heating
100 %
60%
0%
System Deviation : 60%
System proportional band
Unit 1 Deviation : 100%
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