<div>hi all, </div>
<div>i have recently begun using equest and have had successfully running small models.</div>
<div>recently while modeling one of my projects, i had to add another floor under the entire model.</div>
<div>firstly i realise that if i go back from the detailed mode to the wizard entries, i loose all my detailed inputs.</div>
<div>secondly if i simulate this model, the results will be far from realistic.</div>
<div>can someone please help me with the process of adding an extra floor under / over the complete model in the detailed mode, without loosing information.</div>
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<div>any reference document, presentation, explanation shall be very much welcome.</div>
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<div>thanks..</div>
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<div>Kirti Pabrekar</div>
<div>IGBC AP</div>
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<br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: transferring equest file to different computer (Nick Caton)<br> 2. Re: Modeling gas instantaneous water heaters in eQuest<br> (Nick Caton)<br> 3. Equest: Exhaust air heat recovery to hot loop via cold loop<br>
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7. Radiant and biomass heating? (Brian Smith)<br> 8. Induction Unit Error (Benjamin Jordan)<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Nick Caton" <<a href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>><br>
To: "deepika khowal" <<a href="mailto:deepika.khowal@gmail.com">deepika.khowal@gmail.com</a>>, "Charles Land" <<a href="mailto:cland@geo-marine.com">cland@geo-marine.com</a>><br>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:51:52 -0600<br>
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] transferring equest file to different computer<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">I personally have a practice of keeping a “backup” of my finished models on a relatively small flash drive for personal reference. In learning to do this, I picked up some general tips to avoid “what files do I need” line of thinking:</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Simply copying (ctrl+c) and pasting (ctrl+v) the entire project directory (folder) of files is always an option – I often save/copy/paste my project’s directory to my desktop when I want to explore/experiment something without risking harm to my “actual” project.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><span>2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Saving entire directories for backup/reference purposes wastes space. When you only want to keep (or share, as in an email) the bare minimum, including any parametric runs you may have set up, simply open the file, File </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">à</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"> Save As to a new directory. Even for big projects, this usually results in a few (2 or 3) files with a tiny “memory footprint” of <1Mb. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><span>3.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">If you’re changing computers, reinstalling/updating eQuest and/or your operating system – it’s prudent to also navigate to and keep a copy of any weather files downloaded and accumulated in the eQuest data directory. That will potentially save time finding/recreating a weather file later if you should come back to your work and want to re-run a simulation down the road.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><span>4.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">If you get motivated to keep backups for future reference or open others’ files, remember that you can & should check which version of eQuest was used to create the project before opening it with the wrong version: rightclick the .pd2 file and open with notepad or another text editor – the version used is among the first lines. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Also, I’ve never used the default eQuest project data directories to save or work from, so the location of the files is not critical. In moving your projects/files around you might get the occasional “where did that AutoCAD reference go” warnings on opening the project – <br>
it’s totally safe to skip or remove that reference once you’re past defining footprints/zones in the wizards.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Christopher’s error regarding sharing violations/permissions almost certainly has nothing to do directly with eQuest... I’ve only ever run into this sort of error when helping my colleagues/friends who didn’t listen to me when I said to avoid migrating from Windows XP (my money is you’re using some iteration of Windows Vista or later on your desktop and/or laptop)… I’d suggest sharing/transferring files using a flash drive per above or saving the project to a network drive.</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Charles Land<br><b>Cc:</b> McArdle, Christopher; <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] transferring equest file to different computer</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think it is very important to have the equest projects and data folder in same path.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">check the path of these folders on your laptop and your desktop.</p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Charles Land <<a href="mailto:cland@geo-marine.com" target="_blank">cland@geo-marine.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Agree with Carol and Charles – just the PD2 and INP are necessary for most transfers.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have parametric runs, you might also have a PRD file which would be important to transfer. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I sometimes transfer the PDL file just so I have a history of where / when the file was last used.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You might check the install version on each computer. Back when we used 3.63, there were multiple “builds” and I believe we had problems when we tried to open a file from a later build in an earlier version. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, you might check if any of the files in the final destination are now marked read-only – this has caused me trouble before.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <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>Carol Gardner<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] transferring equest file to different computer</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">I do it all the time. As long as you have eQUEST loaded up on each computer you should have no problem. You can either download your .inp and .pd2 files on a USB drive or zip them together and email them to yourself.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Charles Land <<a href="mailto:cland@geo-marine.com" target="_blank">cland@geo-marine.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">Can equest files be transferred to another computer?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">I created an equest model on a laptop computer. I transferred the file to my desktop computer but I keep getting an error message about an sharing violation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">Is it possible to transfer equest files between computers?</span></p>
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:21:34 -0600<br>Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Modeling gas instantaneous water heaters in eQuest<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">Hm… I’ll take a swing at this…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">I’d suggest simply modeling a normal gas storage water heater.</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: #1f497d"><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">Zero out the ambient tank heat losses in detailed edit (set tank UA to 0)</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: #1f497d"><span>2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">Match burner efficiency (HIR) and capacity to the actual equipment</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: #1f497d"><span>3.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">Call it a day ;) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d">By default (coming out of the wizards), hot water loops don’t have a loop UA defined and so will not model losses. If you’re trying to differentiate between instantaneous and storage systems with a static/recirc loop, your storage model ought to define something for loop losses to keep everything on a level playing field.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <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>David Cantrill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Modeling gas instantaneous water heaters in eQuest</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am working on a project that is using instantaneous gas water heaters. What is the best way to model these in eQuest?</p>
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:37:55 -0500<br>Subject: [Equest-users] Equest: Exhaust air heat recovery to hot loop via cold loop<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">First, know that I am a fairly new Equest user. I’ve searched the archive but have not found a good answer to my question.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">In a building I am trying to model, I need to recover heat from the exhaust of a ventilation system with a cold water loop. The heat recovered is then transferred to a hot water loop with a chiller. I have yet to find a way to model that. This should lower our energy consumption as the boiler will have less heat to provide.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Thank you all!<br>Simon Belanger</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Junior Engineer in Energy Efficiency</span></p></div></div><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Arpan Bakshi <<a href="mailto:arpanbakshi@gmail.com">arpanbakshi@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: "Bélanger Simon" <<a href="mailto:Simon.Belanger@teknika-hba.com">Simon.Belanger@teknika-hba.com</a>><br>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:12:33 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Equest: Exhaust air heat recovery to hot loop via cold loop<br>
Simon, so basically you're putting a heat exchanger between your return chilled and hot water lines to reduce return water temperature by preheating hot water before it reaches the boiler?<br><br><br><br><br>Arpan Bakshi<br>
<br><br><br>On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Bélanger Simon <<a href="mailto:Simon.Belanger@teknika-hba.com" target="_blank">Simon.Belanger@teknika-hba.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all,<br><br><br><br>First, know that I am a fairly new Equest user. I’ve searched the archive but have not found a good answer to my question.<br>
<br><br><br>In a building I am trying to model, I need to recover heat from the exhaust of a ventilation system with a cold water loop. The heat recovered is then transferred to a hot water loop with a chiller. I have yet to find a way to model that. This should lower our energy consumption as the boiler will have less heat to provide.<br>
<br><br><br>Any advice would be welcome,<br><br><br><br>Thank you all!<br>Simon Belanger<br><br>Junior Engineer in Energy Efficiency<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Equest-users mailing list<br>
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:35:48 -0800 (PST)<br>Subject: Re: [Equest-users] VRF/VRV PowerPoint on Modeling<br>I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but see attached.<br><br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>
From:Josh Howes <<a href="mailto:josh@concordenergystrategies.com">josh@concordenergystrategies.com</a>><br><a href="mailto:To%3Aequest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">To:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>Cc:<br>
Sent:Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:23:30 PM<br>Subject:Re: [Equest-users] VRF/VRV PowerPoint on Modeling<br><br>Can anyone repost the Powerpoint presentation about how to model VRV/VRF in eQuest again? Thanks!!<br><br>
Josh<br><br>-- Joshua D. Howes. P.E.<br>Concord Energy Strategies<br>(502) 384-9078<br><a href="http://www.concordenergystrategies.com/" target="_blank">http://www.concordenergystrategies.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:12:21 -0900<br>Subject: [Equest-users] Air-side HVAC Summary/ Compliance Report<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My company has just begun experimenting with Equest, and I’m the chosen on the figure it out. There are a couple of questions that have eluded me up to this point but I would imagine are some what trivial to people of the list serv. These pertain to an seemingly error free DD model. </p>
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<p><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span>While looking in the Air-Side HVAC summary report I find a column of Heat btuh/sf. Is this an average or a design day? It also seems 25% high for many buildings compared to what I find using IMC equations for heat loss and even adding in the ventilation load given from this same zone summary. Are there some raw numbers I can use to verify this number? </p>
<p><span>2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span>While asking for a compliance analysis I received this message (x19) :</p>
<p>“Table look up failed: A901-07_Envelope(1,5) evaluating rule: Look-up and default C-Cfactor”</p>
<p>Is there some additional download package I need?</p>
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:19:59 -0900<br>Subject: [Equest-users] Radiant and biomass heating?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My company has just begun experimenting with Equest, and I’m the chosen on the figure it out. There are a couple of questions that have eluded me up to this point but I would imagine are some what trivial to people of the list serv. These pertain to an seemingly error free DD model. </p>
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<p><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span>A building I’m modeling has a biomass boiler and Radiant ceiling panels. I did not find places where I could spec these. Instead I said my system is natural gas, figuring a btu is a btu, (even though efficiencies my be different). And rather than RCP I said they where HW baseboards? Are others making similar assumptions or am I just missing something all together? I this something that maybe I would see in future editions?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brian Smith</p></div></div><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Benjamin Jordan <<a href="mailto:benmichaeljordan@gmail.com">benmichaeljordan@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:25:45 -0500<br>Subject: [Equest-users] Induction Unit Error<br>Hello everyone,<br> <br>I'm running into an error with my setup of an induction unit in equest. For some reason, I am showing cooling during Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, and Dec for a building near Rochester, NY. I have the baseline model setup too and I am showing basically zero cooling during this months (baseline unit is PTAC units b/c it's a residential building). Anyways, I have heat recovery on the OA for my induction units. Does anyone have any ideas to where my error is? Any type of help would be appreciated. Thanks!<br>
<br>Ben Jordan<br>Burt Hill, Stantec<br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Equest-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">Equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
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