<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)">Joe / David,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)">Many thanks for your suggestions,
but I had no luck to find out what differences resulted this issue; finally I
switched back to wizard mode and fixed the number of occupancy in the proposed
model. Now both models have the same occupancy and there in no significant increase
in the energy consumption. From this experience, I learned that is safer to fix
the occupancy within the wizard mode; as Joe pointed out, occupancy affects many
other operations that might be not easy to fix it in DDE mode. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)">Regards,<br>
Morteza </span></p></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">From: David Eldridge <</span><a href="mailto:DEldridge@grummanbutkus.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">DEldridge@grummanbutkus.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">To: "</span><a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">" <</span><a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Cc: </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:17:44 +0000</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Unexpected energy consumption related to occupancy increase</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Can you use a file comparison tool to compare the two *.inp files and see what differences resulted, beyond those that were intended?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I like Compare-It! for this purpose, and there are others.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:03 PM, "Morteza Kasmai" <</span><a href="mailto:morteza.kasmai@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">morteza.kasmai@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> Dear All,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> Something strange is happening in this proposed model. When I change the total building occupancy from eQuest default numbers (321) to real numbers that I have for the actual design (361), total building energy consumption increases tremendously (from $135,741 to $144,114). However, when I increase the occupancy in the baseline model (with System 6), the total building energy consumption does not increase too much. Please refer to the attached files (INP and PD2 files of proposed model with different building occupancy).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> I would appreciate your comments on this issue,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> Morteza</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> [</span><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Uuukta80GuFfvKouzA0mdSvUXqml7MtSwSiw-evuGMU=w147-h43-p-no" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Uuukta80GuFfvKouzA0mdSvUXqml7MtSwSiw-evuGMU=w147-h43-p-no</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">]</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> <Offic_Design-321-2.inp></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> <Offic_Design-321-2.pd2></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> <Offic_Design-361.inp></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> <Offic_Design-361.pd2></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">> ______________________________</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">_________________</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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