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class=491384105-25012008><SPAN class=241433506-25012008>Yes, my head really is
hurting...! </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008><SPAN class=241433506-25012008>Just in case you're
actually following this example, the keyword for zone baseboard heating capacity
is BASEBOARD-RATING</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30 </SPAN><SPAN
class=491384105-25012008> $
as entered into eQuest </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>BASEBOARD-RATING =
{#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30} $ as stored in the .inp
file</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Brandon Nichols <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday,
January 24, 2008 10:20 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> eQuest BDL User Expression:
Area of Zone<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=491384105-25012008>This started out to be a question, but in the
course of making it intelligible I discovered the answer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>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...
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class=491384105-25012008>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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=491384105-25012008>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 </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=491384105-25012008>user default expression for
zone fin tube radiation HEATING-CAPACITY, set to 30 BTUH per square foot
(negative sign req'd by convention):</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30 </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=491384105-25012008> $
as entered into eQuest </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=491384105-25012008>HEATING-CAPACITY =
{#LR("SPACE","AREA")*-30} $ as stored in the .inp
file</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=491384105-25012008><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff
size=2>Enjoy, my head is still hurting...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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