Here's my answer: don't create plenums. Why would you want them unless you are doing a UFAD system and that's a whole other story, or wholenother or whatever. I just make my floor to floor height one number and my floor to ceiling height 6 inches, or the width of the floor slab, less. The DOE help manual, you know, has always suggested that you don't need to model plenums. It seems like it would save a lot of people a lot of time, space, and heart burn to just not include them.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Carol<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Bishop, Bill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wbishop@pathfinder-ea.com">wbishop@pathfinder-ea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The eQUEST wizard will create plenums
based on the inputs for systems. For example, if you use the Schematic Design
Wizard and select a VAV system, you will get one plenum per floor. If you
select Packaged Single Zone you will get one plenum per zone. If you use the Design
Development Wizard, you have the option of selecting System per Floor or System
per Zone, which will create the plenums accordingly.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Equest-users] Equest
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">After setting up an overall
buidling footprint and then the zones eQuest creates a large plenum that
encompasses all zones. How can I divide this plenum to correlate
to it's respective zone? When I have mutlipy systems I'm forced
to assign the plenum return to one system instead of the related zones.<br>
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I'd appreciate any input. Thanks,<br>
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</span></font><b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael
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