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Hi Lars,<br>
<br>
The 12 day schedules written into INP files from the wizard are indeed
monthly schedules.  They provide more variation than simply on/off (by
building type) and the schedules are assigned based on which (of 10)
latitude bin the building is located in (to account for variation in
sunrise/sunset times).<br>
This mechanism was put in place long before DOE-2 provided photocell
controls via the SCHEDULE command.  Utilizing the (relatively new)
photocell control options in the SCHEDULE command would indeed be a
good way to simplify your exterior lighting schedules, but you might
also want to take a look at the hourly values within the existing
schedules in case any variation there makes sense to retain for your
particular building model.<br>
<br>
- Scott<br>
<br>
<br>
Lars Fetzek wrote:
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  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
 size="2"><span class="393151421-10092009">EQuesters,</span></font></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
 size="2"><span class="393151421-10092009"></span></font> </div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
 size="2"><span class="393151421-10092009">     I am trying to
construct the various schedules for my eQuest project.  In order to
ensure that I understand what everything means and to avoid the
automatic creation of superfluous schedules, etc., I am composing
entirely in the .inp file using notepad and using eQuest-generated code
as a guide.</span></font></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
 size="2"><span class="393151421-10092009">     I noticed that eQuest
generates twelve (12) day schedules for exterior lighting, the U-name
of each of which is formatted like this:</span></font></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font
 size="2"><span class="393151421-10092009">"</span>Ext Lighting W1 All<span
 class="393151421-10092009"> " </span></font></font></font></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="393151421-10092009"><font
 color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">     Can anyone tell me what the
twelve such schedules signify?  Does each belong to a particular
month?  Are they even necessary?  If all of my external lighting is
photocell-controlled, can't I just set all such daily external lighting
schedules to ( 1 ) (always on), then apply photocell control per the
DOE2-2 dictionary?</font></span></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="393151421-10092009"></span> </div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="393151421-10092009"><font
 color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Lars Fetzek, EI</font></span></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="393151421-10092009"><font
 color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Phoenix Engineering Group</font></span></div>
  <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="393151421-10092009"><font
 color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Tampa, Florida</font></span></div>
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