[Equest-users] General Advice
John Aulbach
jra_sac at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 14 14:30:37 PDT 2009
You GO, Lars. Experience in this program is the best teacher.
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Lars Fetzek <lfetzek at phoenixeng.us> wrote:
From: Lars Fetzek <lfetzek at phoenixeng.us>
Subject: [Equest-users] General Advice
To: "'Lars Fetzek'" <lfetzek at phoenixeng.us>, equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 2:12 PM
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eQuesters,
I have solved my problem, described
below (from previous e-mails). My solution leads me to send the following
advice to everyone:
Be aware that adding comments (i.e.
text preceded by a dollar sign) in a .inp file, even at the end of an already
functional line of code, can cause mysterious problems in eQuest's
interpretation of other (seemingly unrelated) lines of code.
Lars Fetzek, EI
Phoenix Engnineering Group
Tampa, Florida
From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Lars
Fetzek
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:04 PM
To:
equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Error
question
eQuesters & Brett,
Thanks for your help, Brett. The
BDL file shows the following. It also showed the same error with or
without quotes around the U-name in line 3017 and with or without the $ in line
3010. Evidently, eQuest is just not recognizing the parent system that I
defined line lines 2994 - 3016.
Does anyone know why this would be -
especially when, as explained in the original e-mail (below), I based this code
on that generated by eQuest?
Lars Fetzek, EI
Phoenix Engineering Group
Tampa, Florida
*2988 * $
*********************************************************
*2989 * $
**
**
*2990 * $
**
HVAC Systems /
Zones
**
*2991 * $
**
**
*2992 * $
*********************************************************
*2993 *
*2994 * "HVAC1 System" =
SYSTEM
*2995 *
TYPE =
PVAVS
*2996 *
HEAT-SOURCE = NONE
*2997 * ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE =
ELECTRIC
*2998 * BASEBOARD-SOURCE
= NONE
*2999 *
SIZING-RATIO = 1.15
*3000
* MAX-SUPPLY-T =
95
*3001 *
MIN-SUPPLY-T = 55
*3002
* ECONO-LIMIT-T =
65
*3003 *
ECONO-LOCKOUT = YES
*3004
* OA-CONTROL =
FIXED
*3005 *
FAN-SCHEDULE = "HVAC1 Fan
Sch"
*3006 *
FAN-CONTROL =
FAN-EIR-FPLR
*3007 *
SUPPLY-STATIC = 3.569
*3008
* SUPPLY-EFF =
0.521452
*3009 *
RETURN-EFF =
0.53
*3010 * $
FAN-EIR-FPLR = "Variable Speed Drive
FPLR"
*3011 *
REHEAT-DELTA-T = 15
*3012
* COOLING-CAPACITY = 379900
*3013
* COOLING-EIR =
0.324232
*3014 *
CRANKCASE-HEAT = 0
*3015
* FURNACE-HIR =
1.24067
*3016 *
..
*3017 * Zone-Space-1A =
ZONE
*ERROR****************************************************************************************
*ERROR*****A
PARENT SYSTEM must be defined before you can define this
ZONE
*3018 *
TYPE =
CONDITIONED
*3019 *
MIN-FLOW-RATIO = 0.3
*3020
* FLOW/AREA =
0.5
*3021 *
OA-FLOW/PER = 155.325
*3022 * EXHAUST-FLOW =
1130
*3023 *
EXHAUST-STATIC = 0.75
*3024
* EXHAUST-EFF =
0.411758
*3025 *
DESIGN-HEAT-T = 68
*3026
* HEAT-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Heat
Sch"
*3027 *
DESIGN-COOL-T = 76
*3028
* COOL-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Cool
Sch"
*3029 *
SIZING-OPTION = ADJUST-LOADS
*3030
*
SPACE = "Space
1A Space"
*3031 *
..
From: Brett Fero [mailto:bfero at robsonwoese.com]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Lars Fetzek;
equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Error
question
Lars,
My
suggestion would be to open the bdl file and search for “error”. This will
indicated direct you to where error occurred. Too many errors and eQuest
gives up.
If
you are manually editing the inp file, make sure you have two periods “..” at
the end of you commands as required.
Brett
Fero, P.E., LEED AP
RobsonWoese
Inc.
bfero at robsonwoese.com
From:
equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Lars
Fetzek
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:08 PM
To:
equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] Error
question
eQuesters,
I included the following text in my .inp file, copied-and-pasted from an .inp
file that eQuest generated. My intention is to edit it to reflect the
conditions of the present project, which I really really don't want to have to
re-create in the wizard, since I've already composed about 3,000 lines of .inp
code for complex geometry, schedules, etc. As of yet, the only thing that
I've edited are the U-names referring to the fan schedule, the heat schedule,
the cool schedule, and the space - so that they match the present project.
Scrolling down in this e-mail, you'll see the lovely error messages that appear
when I load the .inp file into eQuest. Can anyone tell me what is
wrong and how to fix it? (Yes, I clicked on the errors, but eQuest
tells me nothing helpful.)
By the way, my concern here is only with HVAC errors and not with the electric
meter error, which simply results from me having commented-out the electric
meter code in the .inp file.
Thanks if you have advice...
Lars
Fetzek, EI
Phoenix
Engineering Group
Tampa,
Florida
$
*********************************************************
$
**
**
$
**
HVAC Systems /
Zones
**
$
**
**
$
*********************************************************
"HVAC1
System" = SYSTEM
TYPE =
PVAVS
HEAT-SOURCE =
NONE
ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = ELECTRIC
BASEBOARD-SOURCE = NONE
SIZING-RATIO =
1.15
MAX-SUPPLY-T = 95
MIN-SUPPLY-T = 55
ECONO-LIMIT-T = 65
ECONO-LOCKOUT = YES
OA-CONTROL = FIXED
FAN-SCHEDULE = "HVAC1 Fan Sch"
FAN-CONTROL = FAN-EIR-FPLR
SUPPLY-STATIC = 3.569
SUPPLY-EFF = 0.521452
RETURN-EFF = 0.53
FAN-EIR-FPLR = "Variable Speed Drive
FPLR"
REHEAT-DELTA-T = 15
COOLING-CAPACITY = 379900
COOLING-EIR = 0.324232
CRANKCASE-HEAT = 0
FURNACE-HIR = 1.24067
..
"Zone
Space 1A" =
ZONE
TYPE =
CONDITIONED
MIN-FLOW-RATIO = 0.3
FLOW/AREA = 0.5
OA-FLOW/PER = 155.325
EXHAUST-FLOW = 1130
EXHAUST-STATIC = 0.75
EXHAUST-EFF = 0.411758
DESIGN-HEAT-T = 68
HEAT-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Heat Sch"
DESIGN-COOL-T = 76
COOL-TEMP-SCH = "HVAC1 Cool Sch"
SIZING-OPTION = ADJUST-LOADS
SPACE = "Space
1A Space"
..
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