[Equest-users] Bad building component

[Seaman, Ethan]

Hi Pasha,

A couple things come to mind, but this can be tough to diagnose without knowing the steps you took when adding the HVAC inputs.  Did you only work in the eQuest user interface, or did you work in the .INP file as well?

I just had this one recently and it was coming from a single-zone system that had an incorrect thermal zone specified as it's control zone (incorrect in that the specified control zone was a thermal zone under a different system).

I recommend troubleshooting by opening the file back up with 'pause for errors' selected.  That usually does a good job.

You can also open the .BDL file and search (ctrl+F) "error".  

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Ethan Seaman
Sustainable Design Analyst
SMMA 
t: 617.520.9288
www.smma.com

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Subject: [Equest-users] Bad building component

Hi all- I just finished inputting a ton of HVAC systems and trying to run calculations and I’m getting a bad building component error-  but nothing is showing up in the BDL errors and it’s not trying to run so I’m not getting a DOE2 report with an error.

Do you have any ideas on how I can find what is stopping the calcs before they even start?  I’m not sure where to look to find what is causing the error?  I’m not even what to look for in the inp file to find what’s not work.

I’d appreciate any ideas you have to help me push through this error to get it to calculate… 

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Pasha
Ph: 308-763-1593
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