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<DIV>The NO. 1 thing I have found effective is to increase the deanband in the thermostat. I don't thin USGBC has any problem with that.</DIV>
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<DIV>It also depends on wheather it is COOLING or HEATING unmet housers. Sometimes, you haven't provided a reheat vaule.</DIV>
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<DIV>Try those first.<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> STEVE SAMENSKI <steve@thespinnakergroupinc.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat, February 13, 2010 2:59:00 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Equest-users] Reproducing Unmet Hours<BR></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It seems I spend a great deal of time with eQuest trying to reduce unmet hours in a model. One thing I’ve tried is having eQuest produce an hourly report of a problem zone’s temperature and T-stat setting, exporting the data to Excel and then searching it for patterns. This approach has a few problems:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I can barely figure out how to create the hourly report I’m looking for. The reporting function (in the Detailed Data Edit mode, under Project & Site, Hourly Reports) isn’t very intuitive, and I can’t find any documentation on it. Has anyone found the docs on this? (I’m currently working through the relevant sections of the DOE 2-2 Dictionary, trying to cross reference between the inputs to eQuest and the BDL file generated from those inputs. I’m just wondering if there’s a short-cut somewhere.) </SPAN></FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Once I get the data in Excel and do some filtering, I can never get the exported data to match the unmet hours found in report SS-R. The Excel analysis seems to always overstate the unmet hours. Has anyone had any luck reproducing the SS-R values? Any ideas? </SPAN></FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I’d like to hear other user’s experience. Do you find that resolving unmet hours is a significant part of your modeling time?<BR></SPAN></FONT></LI></OL><FONT size=1><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Steve Samenski, PE, LEED AP</SPAN></FONT> </DIV></DIV></div><br>
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