[Equest-users] eQuest & NoteTab Question

[Phillips, Jesse]

I don’t think you can create macros in NoteTab.  What would that macro look like in boxer?

Jesse Phillips
Energy Engineer
RDK Engineers
P: 857-221-5957

From: Nathan Miller [mailto:nathanm at rushingco.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 3:38 PM
To: Phillips, Jesse <jphillips at RDKEngineers.com>; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: eQuest & NoteTab Question

Can you create a macro that searches for each instance of “=ZONE”, copies the text before the “=” to get the zone name, and the pastes in the lines necessary to create a new single zone system, using the zone name now stored in the clip-board to paste in the control zone?

I’m not familiar with NoteTab, but you can do that in boxer.


Nathan Miller, PE, LEED AP BD+C – Mechanical Engineer/Senior Energy Analyst
RUSHING | D 206-788-4577 | O 206-285-7100
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From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Phillips, Jesse
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 3:23 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] eQuest & NoteTab Question

Hi,

I have a model with 233 zones.  Right now, every zone has a water loop heat pump.  I want to convert these all to packaged single zone systems.  To do this, I am working in the .inp file and doing a “find and replace” in NoteTab.  The replacing of the system type is easy.  I simply search for the “type      = HP” line and replace with “type     = PSZ”.  However, the PSZ system requires a control zone.  I would like each control zone to be the zone in which that particular system resides.  Which means, for each of my 233 zones, I will have a different control zone (i.e. no longer a simple find and replace search).

Does anyone know of a way to use “find and replace” (or another method) to set each control zone with the zone name which the system resides?

This is what the .inp file should look like for a packaged single zone system:

"EL1 Sys1 (PTAC) (G.SSW1)" = SYSTEM
   TYPE             = PSZ
   HEAT-SOURCE      = HEAT-PUMP
   ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = NONE
   SIZING-RATIO     = 1
   COOL-SIZING-RATI = 1
   MIN-SUPPLY-T     = 58
   FAN-SCHEDULE     = "S1 Sys1 (PTAC) Fan Sch"
   CW-LOOP          = "DEFAULT-CW"
   COOLING-CAPACITY = 15752
   COOL-SH-CAP      = 11839
   HP-SUPP-SOURCE   = NONE
   FURNACE-HIR      = 1.24067
   CONTROL-ZONE     = "EL1 SSW Perim Zn (G.SSW1)"
   C-EER95          = 8.24
   C-COP47          = 0.78
   C-AFUE           = 0.78
   C-SF-MTR-TYPE    = 1
   C-RF-MTR-TYPE    = 1
   C-OSA-DMPR-CTRL  = 1
   C-HTG-DUCT-LOCN  = *Ceiling Plenum*
   C-HTG-DUCT-RVAL  = 7
   C-CLG-DUCT-LOCN  = *Ceiling Plenum*
   C-CLG-DUCT-RVAL  = 7
   C-CLG-CAP-CATEG  = 14

For my next system, everything would be exactly the same except the highlighted lines (and so on for all 233 systems):

"EL1 Sys1 (PTAC) (G.W2)" = SYSTEM
   TYPE             = PSZ
   HEAT-SOURCE      = HEAT-PUMP
   ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = NONE
   SIZING-RATIO     = 1
   COOL-SIZING-RATI = 1
   MIN-SUPPLY-T     = 58
   FAN-SCHEDULE     = "S1 Sys1 (PTAC) Fan Sch"
   CW-LOOP          = "DEFAULT-CW"
   COOLING-CAPACITY = 15752
   COOL-SH-CAP      = 11839
   HP-SUPP-SOURCE   = NONE
   FURNACE-HIR      = 1.24067
   CONTROL-ZONE     = "EL1 Sys1 (PTAC) (G.W2)"
   C-EER95          = 8.24
   C-COP47          = 0.78
   C-AFUE           = 0.78
   C-SF-MTR-TYPE    = 1
   C-RF-MTR-TYPE    = 1
   C-OSA-DMPR-CTRL  = 1
   C-HTG-DUCT-LOCN  = *Ceiling Plenum*
   C-HTG-DUCT-RVAL  = 7
   C-CLG-DUCT-LOCN  = *Ceiling Plenum*
   C-CLG-DUCT-RVAL  = 7
   C-CLG-CAP-CATEG  = 14


thank you,

Jesse Phillips | Energy Engineer

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