[Equest-users] Sub-Metering

[Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr.]

i'd also forgotten.  there is a length limit to meter names.  i think.  
at least there is in terms of how much of the name is displayed in the 
.sim file under the ps-a plant energy utilization.
the example i gave below has 4 meters reported as "em-3 electricity" - 
this could be just the way equest/doe pulls the meter info together but 
it is not clear to me how the truncation keeps them separated - though 
the meters have the same name in the report each appears on a separate 
line like the submeter names below ...

apparently the limit is 4 characters per meter name.

On 3/14/11 2:58 PM, Varkie C Thomas wrote:
>
> *Thank you.  Varkie*
>
> *----- Original Message -----*
>
> *From*: "Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr." <poleary1969 at gmail.com> *Date*: 
> Monday, March 14, 2011 3:44 pm *Subject*: Re: [Equest-users] 
> Sub-Metering > you can sub-meter each shell.  just be careful on how 
> many meters
> > you
> > apply to a model though.  25 meter limit max.  you can make more
> > but the
> > energy & $ applied to meters in excess of the 25 limit won't
> > report.
> > typically i just create these in detailed mode by copying &
> > pasting in
> > from my own set of masters.  though i should note i do use the
> > wizard to
> > create the external lighting power meter so the schedule is
> > already
> > setup when i transition to detailed mode.  then i assign the
> > external
> > power schedules to the meters i create for external power.
> >
> > look in the DOE22Vol1-Basics.pdf file you can download from the
> > same
> > site as equest.  page 164 has an example that won't cut & paste
> > here
> > properly so here's one i've used before.
> >
> > em1 = master meter
> > em-3 & em-4 are two different buildings assigned to em1
> > em-3- submeters are assigned to em-3
> > em-4- submeters are assigned to em-4
> >
> > e-tr is the tradable exterior lighting power meter
> > e-nt is the non-tradable exterior lighting power meter
> >
> > "EM1" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = UTILITY
> >    BLDG/SUB-METERS  = ( "EM-3", "EM-4" )
> >    ..
> > "EM-3" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = BUILDING
> >    SUB-METERS       = ( "EM-3-1", "EM-3-LTG", "EM-3-PRC" )
> >    ..
> > "EM-4" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = BUILDING
> >    SUB-METERS       = ( "EM-CORE", "EM-4-1", "EM-4-LTG", "EM-4-PRC",
> >          "EM-CORE-LTG", "EM-CORE-PRC" )
> >    ..
> > "EM-3-1" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-3-LTG" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-3-PRC" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-CORE" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-4-1" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-4-LTG" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-4-PRC" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-CORE-LTG" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "EM-CORE-PRC" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = SUB-METER
> >    ..
> > "E-TR" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = UTILITY
> >    EXTERIOR-POWER   = ( 5.723 )
> >    EXTERIOR-SCH     = ( "Ext Lighting Sch" )
> >    EXTERIOR-EU      = ( EXT-USAGE )
> >    ..
> > "E-NT" = ELEC-METER
> >    TYPE             = UTILITY
> >    EXTERIOR-POWER   = ( 1.42 )
> >    EXTERIOR-SCH     = ( "Ext Lighting Sch" )
> >    EXTERIOR-EU      = ( EXT-USAGE )
> >    ..
> >
> > On 3/14/11 1:30 PM, Varkie C Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > How do you sub-meter (electric and fuel) a System or an
> > Equipment in
> > > Plant?  Can you sub-meter each Shell?  Which summary report
> > gives the
> > > energy use per month by sub-meter?  Is there documentation on
> > how to
> > > do this?
> > >
> > >
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