<div>Hi Vik--Yes, per James suggestion I have added both these schedules and am now seeing better results without errors--so I am backing up with both my model files to make these adjustments.</div>
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<div>I guess I took for granted that all "default" input boxes even when they are left blank still defaulted to a baseline input...</div>
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<div>Thank you to all of you for taking time out of your busy project schedules to give me some support---it's not soo lonely in this simulation world.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Pasha<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Vikram Sami <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:VSami@lasarchitect.com">VSami@lasarchitect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #0000b4; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I suspect this might be because there is no space heating schedule. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks John--I hadn't input the reheat delta t, thinking that it was one of those "blank" default auto-calc things.... so by inputting a 30 deg delta, that took away the error in the bdl file, but the results are still not showing any space heating consumption and yet somehow I have 0.0 hours out of throttling range---I thought this had to be too good to be true.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've attached the current .pd2 & .inp files I am running. If you do have time to take a quick peak at my inputs...this baseline file is based on Appendix G compliance. please note my system names do not match the system selection I have for baseline case.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, John Aulbach <<a href="mailto:jra_sac@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jra_sac@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt">Check input for consistency, or specify design loads.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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