<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you Craig,<br><br>It turns out that the problem was infact the grout and ground material that I had chosen which was silt. I attempted other soils like sand and I also was receiving the same problems. Finally when I switched to clay and saturated gravel, my problem was solved and the model was able to simulate.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Stephen Parker<br>Bucknell University<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Craig Gammarino" <cgammarino@vanzelm.com><br>To: "Stephen Parker" <sparker@bucknell.edu><br>Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:19:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: RE: [Equest-users] GSHP simulation crashing<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Stephen: That happened to me and it took me awhile to play the
rat-in-a-maze game until I discovered that it crashed when I tried to simulate a
certain geology or grout (sand, wet or dry, I can’t remember) for the water-side
of the system…weird. Good luck---</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: blue;">Craig Gammarino</span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">
equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen
Parker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 27, 2009 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] GSHP simulation crashing</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Hello All,<br>
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I have just modeled a building with a ground source heat pump for the first
time and I have been having some issues to get it running properly. When
I attempt to simulate the building performance, the model gets about 18% into
its simulation at which point it attempts to simulate the affects of the HVAC
system and then eQuest can go no further and crashes. To make sure the
crash was not due to any other area of the model I changed to HVAC system to
another type and it is able to simulate with no problems. Has anyone had
this problem before or does anybody have any advice in regards to
troubleshooting this problem?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Stephen Parker<br>
Bucknell University</span></p>
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