[Equest-users] Bad building component

Tue Oct 11 15:09:13 PDT 2022

Hi Nick!  Yes this is certainly helpful, and I am going to work through the
Loading- advice right now...hopefully I'll get to the next space of info
that will give me direction on what to correct so I can get some numbers
generated and then calibrated.

Thanks so much for your input!

Pasha

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:36 PM Nicholas CATON <Nicholas.Caton at se.com>
wrote:

> I'm rusty on this stuff but Ethan is absolutely on the right track!
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> "Loading" occurs both when you first open a project with eQuest, and as
> well each time you simulate the file - in each case you normally see a
> "loading" bar.  When you have parametric runs, the BDL is "loaded"
> separately with the prescribed differences being implemented for each run.
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> I highlight/add this perspective re: when "loading" occurs to help clarify
> Ethan's suggestion regarding the BDL file.  In each case of "loading" there
> should be a text file generated at that moment (timestamp), and for large
> projects with lots of versioning/parametric runs you may find a
> corresponding number of different BDL files in your project directory.
> You'll find warnings/errors that pop up in the loading the file will
> sometimes prevent simulation from happening, and sometimes won't prevent
> simulation.  If/when you can find an ERROR in the BDL file and it isn't
> immediately obvious what the issue is, you can often learn a lot by
> considering the exact line/position of that error relative to the
> last-loaded model component and/or keyword, and thinking about what else in
> the model references that component.
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> Hope that's helpful!
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> ~Nick
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> Hi Pasha,
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> 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?
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> 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).
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> I recommend troubleshooting by opening the file back up with 'pause for
> errors' selected.  That usually does a good job.
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> You can also open the .BDL file and search (ctrl+F) "error".
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I’d appreciate any ideas you have to help me push through this error to
> get it to calculate…
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> Thanks for your thoughts on this.
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