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<p class="MsoNormal">Go to the zone you want to move and use the system pull down to move the zone to the desired system.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> fraij <fraij@yahoo.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 09, 2021 7:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Fountain <bfountain@greensim.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Fraij via Equest-users <equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Re-Assign Zones to Different HVAC System in eQUEST Software<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Brian for your reply. So, what is the best way to change the parent system for each zone?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Brian Fountain <<a href="mailto:bfountain@greensim.com">bfountain@greensim.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: 9/12/21 10:20 pm (GMT+10:00)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To: Ahmad Fraij <<a href="mailto:fraij@yahoo.com">fraij@yahoo.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Re-Assign Zones to Different HVAC System in eQUEST Software
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The 2nd question is easier. The "PL" zones are plenum zones above the occupied zones.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Dec 9, 2021, at 12:53 AM, Ahmad Fraij via Equest-users <<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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client wants now to de-combine this HVAC system into the original number of HVAC systems and assign each HVAC system only to its actual shells and zones so we can apply different parametric runs for these HVAC systems. For example, one of these similar HVAC
system will have VFD added to it and the other similar HVAC system will have temperature reset apply to it and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">1) I created a new HVAC systems similar to the combined one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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South Perim Zn (G.S3)" and when I added it to the new HVAC system the name changed to "Thermal Zone 211" so, is that correct or I am missing something?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further, what is the difference between "E8 Core Zn (G.C6)" and "E8 Core Pl Zn (G.C65)"? Both are under the same HVAC System and when I click on each one, they refer to the same zone location.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I have attached the .pd2 and .inp files and please note that I created only one new HVAC system for now for testing and named it "Half North"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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