[Bldg-sim] Skylights & Daylighting

Kearns, Patrick pkearns at nexant.com
Mon Dec 17 13:56:31 PST 2007


Folks:
 
I have a building with several zones partially lit by skylights.  The
height from the floor to the roof is about 22'.  The spaces do have a
dropped ceiling at about 20', leaving an unconditioned plenum of about
2'.  There are small shafts allowing the light to penetrate into the
space below.
 
So the modeled zones have both spaces and plenums.  The roofs are child
components of the plenums and have skylights as child components of
them.
 
I have turned daylighting on and installed sensors at about 18' in the
applicable locations.
 
When I run the simulation, it gives an error, indicating that there must
be at least one window on the applicable space.  My guess is that
because there is a ceiling in the lower space, eQUEST cannot figure out
the light penetrates the ceiling below.
 
Interestingly enough, when skylights are created using the wizard,
eQUEST seems to create roofs on both the main space and the plenum.  The
skylit roof is part of the main space, and the other roof is part of the
plenum.  The roof over the plenum does not have skylights.
 
So the solution seems to be either to delete the ceiling (possibly
affecting the load) or create two roofs?
 
Thanks for any insights on this.
 
 
Patrick A. Kearns, P.E.
Nexant, Inc.
www.nexant.com <http://www.nexant.com/> 
303-998-2479 Office
303-918-8731 Mobile
pkearns at nexant.com <mailto:pkearns at nexant.com> 
 
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