[Equest-users] daylighting with skylights

[Sami, Vikram]

Franz,

Your skylights are in the plenum space, lights are in the zone below. There was an email stream about this a couple of weeks ago - look at the archives and you'll find exactly whats wrong with your model.


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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Haller, Franz
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:22 AM
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Subject: [Equest-users] daylighting with skylights

I am have problems daylighting my model with skylights.
It seem like equest wants to only daylight using windows.  However my model is using primarily skylights.  In my core space I am getting error message:


***ERROR***********************************************************************

           A daylighting calculation was requested for SPACE EL1 Core Spc (G.C5)

           This SPACE has no WINDOWs with AREA more than 0.1 SQFT.

           Add WINDOWs to this SPACE of turn off DAYLIGHTING.

Another issue might be the fact that the daylight azumith does not want to point in the Z direction.  It seem only to want look toward a window or wall.  I believe this might have something to do with my errors.

I have attached my model.  Daylighting is the very last parametric run.

Franz Haller
Energy Modeling/Mechanical

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