The new version 3.63 - the eQUEST developers know about it and this fix was posted a few weeks ago. It will be fixed in the next version.<br><br><br clear="all">Kendra Tupper, PE, LEED AP<br>Senior Consultant<br>Built Environment Team<br>
<br>Rocky Mountain Institute | T 303-567-8641 | F 303-245-7213 | <a href="http://www.rmi.org">www.rmi.org</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Glenn Haynes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn.haynes@rlw.com">glenn.haynes@rlw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Which version is this bug in?</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Kendra Tupper<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 09, 2009
12:55 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> John Aulbach;
<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Equest-users]
Difference in results for different eQuestversions v3.61 and v3.63 for same
model...</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John asked a good
question - see the attached pdf for screen shots of where to paste this code.
You right click on the field circled in red and go to "Edit User
Default" to get to the 2nd pop up screen shown.<br>
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Kendra Tupper, PE, LEED AP<br>
Senior Consultant<br>
Built Environment Team<br>
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Rocky Mountain Institute | T 303-567-8641 | F
303-245-7213 | <a href="http://www.rmi.org" target="_blank">www.rmi.org</a><br>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM, John Aulbach <<a href="mailto:jra_sac@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jra_sac@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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Kendra:<br>
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WHERE do you put such code for bug fixes in the prgram??<br>
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John Aulbach<br>
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--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Kendra Tupper <<a href="mailto:ktupper@rmi.org" target="_blank">ktupper@rmi.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> From: Kendra Tupper <<a href="mailto:ktupper@rmi.org" target="_blank">ktupper@rmi.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Difference in results for different eQuest
versions v3.61 and v3.63 for same model...<br>
> To: "Pawan Mulchandani" <<a href="mailto:pawan.equest@gmail.com" target="_blank">pawan.equest@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Cc: "equest-users" <<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>><br>
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 8:54 AM<br>
> This is from the bug that was<br>
> discovered earlier - the fix is to overwrite the eQUEST<br>
> default for min cfm ratio (heating). Here is the code that<br>
> should be used:<br>
><br>
> if (#P("HMIN-CFM-RATIO") == unused)<br>
> then unused<br>
><br>
> else if (#RV(#P("HMIN-CFM-RATIO")) == 0)<br>
> then
#P("HMIN-CFM-RATIO")<br>
> else no_default<br>
> endif<br>
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> endif<br>
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><br>
> Kendra Tupper, PE, LEED AP<br>
> Senior Consultant<br>
> Built Environment Team<br>
><br>
> Rocky Mountain Institute | T 303-567-8641 | F<br>
> 303-245-7213 | <a href="http://www.rmi.org" target="_blank">www.rmi.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:02 AM,<br>
> Pawan Mulchandani <<a href="mailto:pawan.equest@gmail.com" target="_blank">pawan.equest@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I tried to compare results from two different eQuest<br>
> versions i.e. 3.61b and 3.63 with a same model with default<br>
> eQuest settings. But I found there is large difference in<br>
> space cooling and vent fans load in both the version results<br>
> even though the models are same. Space cooling for v3.61 is<br>
> 85.02 X 1000 kWh alongwith vent fans load of 36.14 X 1000<br>
> kWh. While for v3.63 space cooling is 6.87 X 1000 kWh and<br>
> vent fans load is 66.01 kWh. I cant understand why there is<br>
> such a large difference in the output. Is there any large<br>
> difference in the algorithms in both the versions?? Please<br>
> find attached .inp files for both the versions and also the<br>
> weather file for mumbai. Please go through the files..<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks & Regards,<br>
> Pawan.M.<br>
><br>
><br>
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