[Bldg-sim] eQuest BDL User Expression: Area of Zone

[Brandon Nichols]

Yes, my head really is hurting...!  
 
Just in case you're actually following this example, the keyword for
zone baseboard heating capacity is BASEBOARD-RATING
 
 
#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30                         $ as entered into eQuest

 
BASEBOARD-RATING = {#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30}    $ as stored in the .inp
file
 
 
Brando
 

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From: Brandon Nichols 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:20 PM
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: eQuest BDL User Expression: Area of Zone


All,
 
This started out to be a question, but in the course of making it
intelligible I discovered the answer.
 
My objective was to set the user default expression for fin tube
radiation to something like 30 BTUH per square foot in each zone.
However I couldn't figure out how to get the AREA defined by the SPACE
which corresponds to the ZONE into the zone's user expression... 
 
SPACE is not a parent, grandparent or great grandparent of a ZONE -- and
the #P (Parent) funtion was on the frontier of my BDL knowledge.  So
after a couple hours of headbanging while reading the "KEYWORD
EXPRESSIONS / BDL Functions" subsection of the "Building Description
Language" chapter of the DOE-2.2 Vol 3: 'Topics' manual, I was ready to
throw in the towel and ask the group, as nothing was coming up on an
archive search.  
 
But in the process of writing this e-mail, I chanced to read the #LR
(LocalRef) definition one last time and the light bulb went on.  So here
it is, a very simple user default expression for zone fin tube radiation
HEATING-CAPACITY, set to 30 BTUH per square foot (negative sign req'd by
convention):
  
 
#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30                         $ as entered into eQuest

 
HEATING-CAPACITY = {#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30}    $ as stored in the .inp
file
 
 
Enjoy, my head is still hurting...
 
Brandon Nichols, PE, LEED(r) AP
Mechanical
HARGIS ENGINEERS

600 Stewart Street

Suite 1000

Seattle, WA 98101

www.hargis.biz

 

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