<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">You GO, Lars. Experience in this program is the best teacher.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/14/09, Lars Fetzek <i><lfetzek@phoenixeng.us></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lars Fetzek <lfetzek@phoenixeng.us><br>Subject: [Equest-users] General Advice<br>To: "'Lars Fetzek'" <lfetzek@phoenixeng.us>, equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 2:12 PM<br><br><div id="yiv267803282">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009">eQuesters,</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"> I have solved my problem, described
below (from previous e-mails). My solution leads me to send the following
advice to everyone:</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"> Be aware that adding comments (i.e.
text preceded by a dollar sign) in a .inp file, even at the end of an already
functional line of code, can cause mysterious problems in eQuest's
interpretation of other (seemingly unrelated) lines of code.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009">Lars Fetzek, EI</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009">Phoenix Engnineering Group</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009">Tampa, Florida</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="774470421-14092009"></span></font> </div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lars
Fetzek<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2009 4:04 PM<br><b>To:</b>
equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Error
question<br></font><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">eQuesters & Brett,</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> Thanks for your help, Brett. The
BDL file shows the following. It also showed the same error with or
without quotes around the U-name in line 3017 and with or without the $ in line
3010. Evidently, eQuest is just not recognizing the parent system that I
defined line lines 2994 - 3016.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> Does anyone know why this would be -
especially when, as explained in the original e-mail (below), I based this code
on that generated by eQuest?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Lars Fetzek, EI</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Phoenix Engineering Group</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Tampa, Florida</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="920365719-14092009"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> *2988 * $
*********************************************************<br>
*2989 * $
**
**<br> *2990 * $
**
HVAC Systems /
Zones
**<br> *2991 * $
**
**<br> *2992 * $
*********************************************************<br>
*2993 * <br> *2994 * "HVAC1 System" =
SYSTEM<br> *2995 *
TYPE =
PVAVS<br> *2996 *
HEAT-SOURCE = NONE<br>
*2997 * ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE =
ELECTRIC<br> *2998 * BASEBOARD-SOURCE
= NONE<br> *2999 *
SIZING-RATIO = 1.15<br> *3000
* MAX-SUPPLY-T =
95<br> *3001 *
MIN-SUPPLY-T = 55<br> *3002
* ECONO-LIMIT-T =
65<br> *3003 *
ECONO-LOCKOUT = YES<br> *3004
* OA-CONTROL =
FIXED<br> *3005 *
FAN-SCHEDULE = "HVAC1 Fan
Sch"<br> *3006 *
FAN-CONTROL =
FAN-EIR-FPLR<br> *3007 *
SUPPLY-STATIC = 3.569<br> *3008
* SUPPLY-EFF =
0.521452<br> *3009 *
RETURN-EFF =
0.53<br> *3010 * $
FAN-EIR-FPLR = "Variable Speed Drive
FPLR"<br> *3011 *
REHEAT-DELTA-T = 15<br> *3012
* COOLING-CAPACITY = 379900<br> *3013
* COOLING-EIR =
0.324232<br> *3014 *
CRANKCASE-HEAT = 0<br> *3015
* FURNACE-HIR =
1.24067<br> *3016 *
..<br> *3017 * Zone-Space-1A =
ZONE<br>*ERROR****************************************************************************************<br>*ERROR*****A
PARENT SYSTEM must be defined before you can define this
ZONE<br> *3018 *
TYPE =
CONDITIONED<br> *3019 *
MIN-FLOW-RATIO = 0.3<br> *3020
* FLOW/AREA =
0.5<br> *3021 *
OA-FLOW/PER = 155.325<br>
*3022 * EXHAUST-FLOW =
1130<br> *3023 *
EXHAUST-STATIC = 0.75<br> *3024
* EXHAUST-EFF =
0.411758<br> *3025 *
DESIGN-HEAT-T = 68<br> *3026
* HEAT-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Heat
Sch"<br> *3027 *
DESIGN-COOL-T = 76<br> *3028
* COOL-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Cool
Sch"<br> *3029 *
SIZING-OPTION = ADJUST-LOADS<br> *3030
*
SPACE = "Space
1A Space"<br> *3031 *
..</font></span></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Brett Fero [mailto:bfero@robsonwoese.com]
<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2009 3:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> Lars Fetzek;
equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] Error
question<br></font><br></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Lars,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">My
suggestion would be to open the bdl file and search for “error”. This will
indicated direct you to where error occurred. Too many errors and eQuest
gives up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">If
you are manually editing the inp file, make sure you have two periods “..” at
the end of you commands as required. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Brett
Fero, P.E., LEED AP</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">RobsonWoese
Inc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bfero@robsonwoese.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=bfero@robsonwoese.com"><span style="color: blue;">bfero@robsonwoese.com</span></a></span></p></div>
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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>Lars
Fetzek<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2009 3:08 PM<br><b>To:</b>
equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Error
question</span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">eQuesters,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
I included the following text in my .inp file, copied-and-pasted from an .inp
file that eQuest generated. My intention is to edit it to reflect the
conditions of the present project, which I really really don't want to have to
re-create in the wizard, since I've already composed about 3,000 lines of .inp
code for complex geometry, schedules, etc. As of yet, the only thing that
I've edited are the U-names referring to the fan schedule, the heat schedule,
the cool schedule, and the space - so that they match the present project.
Scrolling down in this e-mail, you'll see the lovely error messages that appear
when I load the .inp file into eQuest. Can anyone tell me what is
wrong and how to fix it? (Yes, I clicked on the errors, but eQuest
tells me nothing helpful.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
By the way, my concern here is only with HVAC errors and not with the electric
meter error, which simply results from me having commented-out the electric
meter code in the .inp file.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
Thanks if you have advice...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lars
Fetzek, EI</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Phoenix
Engineering Group</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tampa,
Florida</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">$
*********************************************************<br>$
**
**<br>$
**
HVAC Systems /
Zones
**<br>$
**
**<br>$
*********************************************************</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"HVAC1
System" = SYSTEM
<br>
TYPE =
PVAVS<br> HEAT-SOURCE =
NONE<br> ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = ELECTRIC<br>
BASEBOARD-SOURCE = NONE<br> SIZING-RATIO =
1.15<br> MAX-SUPPLY-T = 95<br>
MIN-SUPPLY-T = 55<br>
ECONO-LIMIT-T = 65<br>
ECONO-LOCKOUT = YES<br>
OA-CONTROL = FIXED<br>
FAN-SCHEDULE = "HVAC1 Fan Sch"<br>
FAN-CONTROL = FAN-EIR-FPLR<br>
SUPPLY-STATIC = 3.569<br>
SUPPLY-EFF = 0.521452<br>
RETURN-EFF = 0.53<br>
FAN-EIR-FPLR = "Variable Speed Drive
FPLR"<br> REHEAT-DELTA-T = 15<br>
COOLING-CAPACITY = 379900<br>
COOLING-EIR = 0.324232<br>
CRANKCASE-HEAT = 0<br>
FURNACE-HIR = 1.24067<br> ..<br>"Zone
Space 1A" =
ZONE
<br>
TYPE =
CONDITIONED<br> MIN-FLOW-RATIO = 0.3<br>
FLOW/AREA = 0.5<br>
OA-FLOW/PER = 155.325<br>
EXHAUST-FLOW = 1130<br>
EXHAUST-STATIC = 0.75<br>
EXHAUST-EFF = 0.411758<br>
DESIGN-HEAT-T = 68<br>
HEAT-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Heat Sch"<br>
DESIGN-COOL-T = 76<br>
COOL-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Cool Sch"<br>
SIZING-OPTION = ADJUST-LOADS<br>
SPACE = "Space
1A Space"<br> ..</span></p>
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