<div dir="ltr">Nathan -<div><br></div><div>I have tried this before and gives me this error message and restores the settings:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_14e971fdbb27e87e" alt="Inline image 1" width="524" height="328"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Nathan Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathanm@rushingco.com" target="_blank">nathanm@rushingco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Equest-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pranita Kothuru Komirishetty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] error msg: loop - no primary heating equipment attached<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am working on a 65 story building in eQuest 3.64. The building is cooled by Standard VAV units (primary cooling equipement is chillers) heated by perimeter baseboards (steam boilers). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first 6 floors of the building have perimeter induction units with no re-heat. For this I have created a different loop (linked this to the primary heating loop). This loop is called the Circulation Loop 5 in my model. I assign this
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I run the simulation I get the following error:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> ***ERROR***********************************************************************<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Loop: Circulation Loop 5 has no attached primary<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I could not find anything in the archives directly to tackle this issue. Not an expert in HVAC and hence need your advise.<u></u><u></u></p>
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