<div dir="ltr">Ethan- Thank you! I worked only in eQuest interface to set it up-- buy your reference of the wrong control zone might be likely. I'm doing a VRF system in DOE 2.3, and I don't have a good step by step reference to make sure I have set it up correctly. I;ve been able to get through this initial error that I first referenced, but now I have some errors in running the file that I think is specific to the VRF units. The error I'm able to "see" is a convergence error- I've never gotten anything like this before, and it appears differently in the SIM file than we are used to seeing. I am grateful for any insight the rest of you have.<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_l94r5ba10" alt="image.png" width="562" height="297"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 1:04 PM Seaman, Ethan <<a href="mailto:eseaman@smma.com">eseaman@smma.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Pasha,<br>
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A couple things come to mind, but this can be tough to diagnose without knowing the steps you took when adding the HVAC inputs. Did you only work in the eQuest user interface, or did you work in the .INP file as well?<br>
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I just had this one recently and it was coming from a single-zone system that had an incorrect thermal zone specified as it's control zone (incorrect in that the specified control zone was a thermal zone under a different system).<br>
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I recommend troubleshooting by opening the file back up with 'pause for errors' selected. That usually does a good job.<br>
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You can also open the .BDL file and search (ctrl+F) "error". <br>
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Subject: [Equest-users] Bad building component<br>
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Hi all- I just finished inputting a ton of HVAC systems and trying to run calculations and I’m getting a bad building component error- but nothing is showing up in the BDL errors and it’s not trying to run so I’m not getting a DOE2 report with an error.<br>
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Do you have any ideas on how I can find what is stopping the calcs before they even start? I’m not sure where to look to find what is causing the error? I’m not even what to look for in the inp file to find what’s not work.<br>
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I’d appreciate any ideas you have to help me push through this error to get it to calculate… <br>
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Thanks for your thoughts on this.<br>
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Pasha<br>
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