Just a couple of comments, Mark. If a default was overridden, it would be you who did it so you would know what you overrode it with. If I am misunderstanding and you just couldn't see what the default was you can view it, usually by right clicking on the input box.<br>
<br>I am curious why the reviewer asked that autosizing not be done for the baseline. I was reading my Std 90 2004 User's guide this morning and was kind of surprised that in it they more or less suggest you need to oversize by hand. I'm not sure why. I know that you need to be careful where you put the 15% and 25% sizing increases in eQUEST but it's relatively easy to get them in the right spot.<br>
<br>As a check let me know what you think of my methodology. I set the system sizing ratio on the first screen of the Air-Side HVAC System to 1.0, and then set the Cool Size Ratio to 1.15 on the first screen under the Cooling tab, and the Heat Size Ratio to 1.25 of the first screen under the Heating tab. Is this what others do?<br>
<br>Carol<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Mark Darrall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MDarrall@a2so4.com">MDarrall@a2so4.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55"">Thanks, everyone! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55"">Don’t forget, too, that the Appendix G requirements don’t always jive with default eQ values. Also, my reviewer has asked that autosizing not be done for baseline, which probably meant more overrides…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55"">I appreciate the tip on searching the .inp file. Thanks!</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nick Caton<br><b>Cc:</b> Mark Darrall; <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Where to find summary of overridden defaults etc.</span></p>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If in the baseline (and may be the proposed case), I have made changes from the auto-sizing (and from the proposed design) to reduce the unmet hours, I count that as default over-ridden. This is usually a small number (less than 5 if I remember correctly).</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Nick Caton <<a href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com" target="_blank">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Mark,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">For eQuest, I don’t believe there is any reasonable way to tally “default overrides.” For LEED submittals, I typically enter zeroes at the corresponding template queries, and that’s what I’ve suggested to others for initial submittals. I’ve heard others enter “9999” in all fields without comment, but 0 seems less conspicuous to me =).</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If a reviewer were to push me to come up with a figure without any specific guidance after an initial submittal, I suppose I would paste the .inp file into a word document, ctrl+f for instances of the text “..” without quotes, and explain that number represents an estimate of the number of non-library entries in the project (screengrab):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><img src="" border="0" height="259" width="558"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I would probably wonder about the reviewer somewhere along the way too... Anyone familiar with eQuest and LEED knows there’s no way to finish a 90.1-based model without a horde of non-default entries… I’m having difficulty guessing at how this figure could help an eQuest model reviewer do their job properly. Perhaps it’s specific to other software packages… Thoughts anyone? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">To be clear, I’d sooner advise just entering 0’s in lieu of jumping through any unnecessary hoops. </span></p>
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</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55"">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT 55"">I know that when a run has issues, it creates an ATTN report with the warnings listed. But how can I find out how many default values have been overridden without going through every screen and counting them?</span></p>
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