[Equest-users] BDL Error Trouble Shooting

[samuel mason]

Hi Jill,
Sharing your BDL and inp files will help figure out the issues.



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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Julien Marrec <julien.marrec at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jill,
>
> If you want people to help,
> It' be helpful to share the files themselves or at least what errors you
> are getting so it gets specific enough for people to advise.
>
> By what you are saying (8-10 min to run it)  I would tend to postulate you
> created way more zones than necessary even given the fact that hospital are
> large buildings. (Or you could have an antique computer)
>
> Best,
> Julien
>
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
> Le 22 juil. 2015 à 18:31, Jill Moreland <jill.moreland at plugsmart.com> a
> écrit :
>
> Good Afternoon All,
>
> I am working on my first eQuest Energy Model and am quickly feeling
> overwhelmed. Was able to build the shell in the wizard and assign shell
> properties (excluding doors and windows as noted in tutorial to add in
> detailed mode) and was successful with only 4 errors.
>
> The problem is that when I started adding in the HVAC chilled water
> components without zoning them it generated 34,000 errors. I then scrapped
> that work and started over with one floor (which has 5 systems) and I
> properly zoned it and it generated 51,000 errors.
>
> This is a 6 story hospital that was added on over many years. At this
> point my main question is what is best way to trouble shoot? It seems that
> once I close the BDL Error Screen I do not have a way of going back in
> without re-generating which takes 8-10 minutes to see the errors AND I
> don't see a way to drill down on the errors to try to resolve. I am sure
> many of them are inter-related but I dont even know where to start.
>
> I am glad to have found this group because I have contacted eQuest with no
> response and their Forum that I bought a 4 month subscription to is
> basically worthless (no one responds). I know every one is slammed but any
> and all help would be greatly appreciated as I think this is a field that I
> may stay in for awhile.
>
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