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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Eric,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I&#8217;m following your line of thinking&#8230; but I&#8217;m
still stumped as to the root cause&#8230;&nbsp; If the design CFM was too low and
that&#8217;s why Z&gt;1.0, wouldn&#8217;t there be a warning for that?&nbsp; I
have a bunch of items referencing the library VSD curve in question so it&#8217;s
not easy for me to check all the potentially awry hourly results &#8211; but I
may need to go down that path&#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Carol,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>ATTN is the report we can look at in the SIM file after running
a simulation &#8211; a screenshot follows.&nbsp; It displays any cautions/warnings/errors
encountered when a simulation is attempted/completed.&nbsp; Sorry for the minor
censoring but this is one of those &#8220;top-secret nuclear facilities&#8221;
we keep referencing for which I might get in actual trouble otherwise =). &nbsp;It&#8217;s
a different project but similar caution popping up on the last day of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As a related aside and general DOE2 inquiry &#8211; I&#8217;ve
been trying to enter the following line into my .inp file in various locations prior
to running a simulation, but I cannot get it to stick (eQuest seems to ignore
or erase it wherever I put it as soon as I try to run a simulation):&nbsp; DIAGNOSTIC
WARNINGS ..<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The idea is to have this ATTN report, which I&#8217;m
occasionally asked to present along with explanations, not show cautions (after
determining they are indeed erroneous, of course!).&nbsp; Am I chasing my own
tail trying to put this into the .inp file?&nbsp; Is there somewhere in the
eQuest interface we&#8217;re permitted to specify a DIAGNOSTIC option other
than the default CAUTIONS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Stylus BT","sans-serif";
color:#2D4D5E'>NICK CATON, E.I.T.</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Stylus BT","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Carol Gardner
[mailto:cmg750@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 07, 2010 12:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eric O'Neill<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nick Caton; eQUEST Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] CAUTION: Variable Speed Drive FPLR???<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>What the heck is an ATTN
screen?? Is it a LEED thingy??<br>
<br>
Confused in Portland,<br>
Carol<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Eric O'Neill &lt;<a
href="mailto:elo@michaelsengineering.com">elo@michaelsengineering.com</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Nick,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I&#8217;m not sure I can answer your
question. Maybe someone can pick up on this line of thought though to answer
the question.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>If you play with the numbers, a PLR of
1.1 is yielding that fan vsd signal of 1.257. I believe the PLR is calculated
as (the current hour&#8217;s CFM)/(design CFM). So whatever&#8217;s going on
here is causing the system to call for (or think it has) a CFM value 10%
greater than design. Also, the function is supposed to set any outputs above
the set maximum (in this case 1) to the maximum, so I&#8217;m not sure what
about the last day of the year is causing it to ignore the maximum output
value. </span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>When I look at the hourly reports on a
system that&#8217;s using that curve and getting that error at 12/31/24, my PLR
(variable 60) looks fine, and the CFM is at its minimum. So I don&#8217;t think
it&#8217;s a real issue. I&#8217;m also not very BDL/DOE2 literate, so I might
be looking at this wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Also, if you really wanted a clean ATTN
screen, you could just set your max output from that function to 1.28 ;-)</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eric</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org"
target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Nick Caton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carol Gardner<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<b>Cc:</b> eQUEST Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] CAUTION: Variable Speed Drive FPLR???<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thanks Carol!</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I&#8217;m glad
to see some supporting information to assure me this CAUTION is likely not a
big deal, but it still kinda irks me that this is message is often the only
thing between me and a perfectly blank ATTN report in my models&#8230;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>If anyone can
offer some insight regarding this VSD curve message&#8217;s meaning and/or
root-causes, I&#8217;d be very grateful to either figure out a way to eliminate
these CAUTIONS, or to otherwise be able to sleep at night knowing I can provide
an in-depth response regarding its meaning and why it&#8217;s not a big deal
and ignore-able.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'> Carol Gardner [mailto:<a
href="mailto:cmg750@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmg750@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Caton<br>
<b>Cc:</b> eQUEST Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] CAUTION: Variable Speed Drive FPLR???</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Here you go Nick. This is in your 3-63 data area as
DOE-2.chm. There is tons of info there. Cautions are the least of your worries.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'>ERRORS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Diagnostics deal with problems in the input that must be corrected before the
simulation will execute. <o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'>WARNINGS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Diagnostics are concerned with input data that can be used in the simulation
but are probably erroneous (such as a temperature input of 700 instead of
70.0). <o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'>CAUTIONS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Diagnostics are much less severe than WARNINGS messages and deal with questionable
input value that do not significantly affect the results of the simulation.
This is the default level.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Carol<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Nick Caton &lt;<a
href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com" target="_blank">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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margin-left:.5in'>On many projects, I&#8217;ve run into the following typical
CAUTION in my SIM ATTN report:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;**CAUTION**********************************************************************</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In curve: Variable Speed Drive FPLR&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
the dependent value</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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is exceeding the limits.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Value/Min/Max/First time:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1.257&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
0.100&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.000&nbsp;
12/31/24</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'>It&#8217;s <u>always</u> referencing this specific library
VSD curve, and it <u>always</u> occurs in the last hours of the very last day
of the modeled year.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen it so much I&#8217;m pretty certain
that particular value 1.257 is always present too.<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'>What are the implications here to the modeled behavior?&nbsp;
Is this caution something of concern?&nbsp; Is something off with the library
curve?<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in'>I&#8217;ve always assumed that if something is only off in
the last hours of the modeled year, it shouldn&#8217;t be a big deal &#8211;
but it&#8217;s bugging me that I&#8217;m seeing this come up again and again
and I don&#8217;t know what it really means&#8230;<o:p></o:p></p>

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