<div>Hi all, </div>
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<div>I am running into a red flag on the BEPS report and I wonder if anybodyelse has run into this before. </div>
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<div>In my most recent runs (some 10 versions in a day and a half) I see the following inconsistency in the BEPS report % of hours outside throttling range Vs Hours outside throttling range</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><font color="#ff0000">PERCENT OF HOURS ANY SYSTEM ZONE OUTSIDE OF THROTTLING RANGE =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0.19</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>PERCENT OF HOURS ANY PLANT LOAD NOT SATISFIED<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0.00</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE ABOVE COOLING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE BELOW HEATING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 99</span></font></span></p>
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<div> I would infer that as - a 0.19 % of hours to be 0.19* 0.01* 8760 hrs = 16.64 hrs, but the 'hours below heating throttling range' says 99</div>
<div>Also, the system summary indicates a 0% hours outside throttling range (which very well might be a rounded off number of 0.19) and the system hours outside throttling range hours add upto 51 (even if there are overlapping no. of hours, the total called out in the BEPS should be <51) right?. So, I am not sure where eQuest is getting the number '160' from.</div>
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<div>further, I continued with my next version, corrected an outside air requirement in a zone, thus increasing my hours outside heating throttling range and the BEPS looks like this </div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"> <font color="#ff0000">PERCENT OF HOURS ANY SYSTEM ZONE OUTSIDE OF THROTTLING RANGE =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0.19</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>PERCENT OF HOURS ANY PLANT LOAD NOT SATISFIED<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0.00</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE ABOVE COOLING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE BELOW HEATING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>160</font></span></p>
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<div>no change in % hours outside throttling range, but the hours below heating throttling range increased. System summary again says 0% and system summary hours outside throttling range adds up to 58 hrs. </div>
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<div>In all my previous runs the % and no. of hours are fairly proportional & matches the % called out in the system summary. </div>
<div>for eg. </div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"> </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>PERCENT OF HOURS ANY SYSTEM ZONE OUTSIDE OF THROTTLING RANGE =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>7.66</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>PERCENT OF HOURS ANY PLANT LOAD NOT SATISFIED<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0.00</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE ABOVE COOLING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>657</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOURS ANY ZONE BELOW HEATING THROTTLING RANGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>101</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"> System summary says 8% outside throttling range; </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"> Am I running into some fatal error building up? Any pointers will be great. I will try to dig into the documentation too to see how these numbers are calculated. </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="Normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"></span> Thanks!</p>
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<div>- Sangeetha</div>