[Equest-users] Re-Assign Zones to Different HVAC System in eQUEST Software

Brian Fountain bfountain at greensim.com
Thu Dec 9 03:20:42 PST 2021


The 2nd question is easier.  The "PL" zones are plenum zones above the occupied zones.

As for the zone renaming -
Zones do not get renamed when you change the parent system.  It sounds to me like you created a new zone rather than changing the parent system in the zone basics tab.  

On Dec 9, 2021, 12:53 AM, at 12:53 AM, Ahmad Fraij via Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
>Hello Guys,
>I combined a number of similar HVAC systems for different shells and
>zones in one HVAC System and I assigned this combined HVAC System to
>all these shells and zones. The client wants now to de-combine this
>HVAC system into the original number of HVAC systems and assign each
>HVAC system only to its actual shells and zones so we can apply
>different parametric runs for these HVAC systems. For example, one of
>these similar HVAC system will have VFD added to it and the other
>similar HVAC system will have temperature reset apply to it and so on. 
>I followed the following steps in the detailed mode to de-combine this
>HVAC systems as below and I want to make sure that I am doing the right
>thing:
>1) I created a new HVAC systems similar to the combined one.2) I delete
>the zones under the combined HVAC system one by one and then add them
>as a child component to the new created HVAC system that each zone is
>belong to.
>I have noticed that the zone name is changing when I add it to the new
>HVAC system. For example, the name of one of the zones under the
>combined HVAC system was "E1 South Perim Zn(G.S3)" and when I added it
>to the new HVAC system the name changed to "Thermal Zone 211" so, is
>that correct or I am missing something?
>Further, what is the difference between "E8 Core Zn (G.C6)" and "E8
>Core Pl Zn (G.C65)"? Both are under the same HVAC System and when I
>click on each one, they refer to the same zone location.
>I have attached the .pd2 and .inp files and please note that I created
>only one new HVAC system for now for testing and named it "Half North"
>Your help will be highly appreciated.
>Regards
>Ahmad
>
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