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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>Fellow
eQuesters,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>
I'm sorry to continue posting such basic questions, but I am, as usual,
lost.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>
It seems that entering data for lighting and for HVAC (in the detailed model)
involves hundreds of fields, many of which really don't seem relevant. For
example, the lighting fields include many questions about photometrics.
However, obviously, if I have a lighting time schedule and the lighting
systems defined, I should be able, using simple arithmetic, to calculate how
much energy it uses. However, eQuest wants a bunch of other
information (such as photometrics), which has taken me forever to
calculate. However, I dare not omit such data since I don't know what
eQuest's algorithms are.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009> I
am just starting to model the HVAC systems and things appear even worse. I
don't need eQuest to design the systems for me. The systems exist on
paper. How do I eliminate all of the irrelevant fields and just enter the
important stuff that actually describes my systems? I am especially
perplexed when there are three fields asking for A, B, and the ratio of A to
B. Why doesn't it just ask for two rather than all three such data?
What if a user enters conflicting data, such as A=2, B=3, and A/B=7?
Again, it is alot like the lighting: I don't care about CFM/person or
CFM/sq-ft. I have the CFM, the number of people, and the square feet for a
zone. How can avoid the hundreds of questions?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Any ideas? How can I tell what fields eQuest will actually use in doing
the energy modeling so that I can ignore the rest?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>Lars Fetzek,
EI</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>Phoenix Engineering
Group</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=027321919-06082009>Tampa,
Florida</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>