[Equest-users] submeters/meters

Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr. poleary1969 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 14:15:40 PST 2010


hopefully this is a "simple" question.  i have a model created w/the 
ddwizard that i've saved to a new file to edit in detailed mode, 
specifically for adding electrical submeters.

when saving the file & switching to detailed mode w/the default 
electrical meter EM1 the simulation seesm to report energy use as expected.

when i add a building meter, and assign submeters for each tenant space, 
everything seems to work fine in terms of reporting electrical usage for 
the energy uses such as lighting, task lighting, pumps, fans, etc . . . 
but do not report energy usage for cooling or heating outside of the 
month of january.

has anyone seen this before?  i have thought it might be scheduling 
related, but the ddwizard has cooling/heating assigned to schedules & 
this also seems to be present in the detailed mode, and does not explain 
why results are reported in the wizard file and the single electrical 
meter detailed file, but not once additional submeters are added.  
sample info below.  i can send the .inp file if someone's interested but 
i'm hoping there's just something obvious i'm missing that someone will 
have seen.

SAMPLE ELECTRICAL METERS:
"EM1" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = UTILITY
    BLDG/SUB-METERS  = ( "EM-3", "EM-4" )
    ..
"EM-3" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = BUILDING
    SUB-METERS       = ( "EM-3-1", "EM-3-1-PRC", "EM-3-1-LTG", "EM-3-2",
          "EM-3-2-PRC", "EM-3-2-LTG", "EM-3-3", "EM-3-3-PRC", "EM-3-3-LTG",
          "EM-3-4", "EM-3-4-PRC", "EM-3-4-LTG", "EM-3-5", "EM-3-5-PRC",
          "EM-3-5-LTG", "EM-3-6", "EM-3-6-PRC", "EM-3-6-LTG" )
    ..
"EM-4" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = BUILDING
    SUB-METERS       = ( "EM-CORE", "EM-4-1", "EM-4-1-PRC", "EM-4-1-LTG",
          "EM-4-2", "EM-4-2-PRC", "EM-4-2-LTG", "EM-4-3", "EM-4-3-PRC",
          "EM-4-3-LTG", "EM-4-4", "EM-4-4-PRC", "EM-4-4-LTG", "EM-4-5",
          "EM-4-5-PRC", "EM-4-5-LTG", "EM-4-6", "EM-4-6-PRC", "EM-4-6-LTG",
          "EM-4-7", "EM-4-7-PRC", "EM-4-7-LTG", "EM-4-8", "EM-4-8-PRC",
          "EM-4-8-LTG", "EM-CORE-LTG", "EM-CORE-PRC" )
    ..
"EM-3-1" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = SUB-METER
    ..
"EM-3-1-PRC" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = SUB-METER
    ..
"EM-3-1-LTG" = ELEC-METER
    TYPE             = SUB-METER
    ..

SAMPLE SYSTEM INPUT:
"EL1 Sys15 (PSZ) (G.NW6)" = SYSTEM
    TYPE             = PSZ
    HEAT-SOURCE      = HEAT-PUMP
    ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = NONE
    BASEBOARD-SOURCE = NONE
    MAX-SUPPLY-T     = 90
    MIN-SUPPLY-T     = 55
    ECONO-LIMIT-T    = 65
    ECONO-LOCKOUT    = YES
    ECONO-LOW-LIMIT  = 45
    SUPPLY-FLOW      = 1950
    OA-CONTROL       = OA-TEMP
    FAN-SCHEDULE     = "S15 Sys15 (PSZ) Fan Sch"
    SUPPLY-STATIC    = 1.25
    SUPPLY-EFF       = 0.53
    RETURN-EFF       = 0.53
    NIGHT-CYCLE-CTRL = CYCLE-ON-FIRST
    INDOOR-FAN-MODE  = CONTINUOUS
    COOLING-EIR      = 0.196246
    COMPRESSOR-TYPE  = DUAL-SPEED
    HEATING-EIR      = 0.251566
    LIGHT-ELEC-METER = "EM-3-1-LTG"
    TASK-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1-LTG"
    EQUIP-ELEC-METER = "EM-3-1-PRC"
    SOURCE-ELEC-METE = "EM-3-1-PRC"
    HEAT-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1"
    COOL-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1"
    HTREJ-ELEC-METER = "EM-3-1"
    AUX-ELEC-METER   = "EM-3-1"
    VENT-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1"
    REFG-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1"
    SUPP-ELEC-METER  = "EM-3-1"
    CONTROL-ZONE     = "EL1 NW Perim Zn (G.NW6)



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