[Equest-users] equest/leed 3.0 question

Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr. poleary1969 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 13:07:01 PDT 2011


that could be it.  project was initially registered over a year ago.  
see attached screenshot of part of spreadsheet.


On 3/23/11 12:33 PM, Jeremy Poling wrote:
> Check whether the project you are working on has the most recent forms
> and resources (if not, it will note that it is in Beta).  I just opened
> the excel file on a project that just started and cannot find voltage
> drop referenced anywhere in the spreadsheet.
>
> What they are referring to is likely the mandatory provision from
> Section 8 requiring no more than a 2% voltage drop for feeders and no
> more than a 3% voltage drop for branch circuits.  It may have been in
> there on an older version in error because you're right: I do not
> believe any traditional energy modeling packages account for this.
> Captor/Dapper does as part of that package of software but it is not
> performing an energy simulation.
>
> Jeremy R. Poling, PE, LEED AP+BDC
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
> J. O'Leary, Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:16 PM
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> Subject: [Equest-users] equest/leed 3.0 question
>
> i am looking at the leed "EAp2 Section 1.4 tables.xls" file for a leed
> 3.0 project&  there is a section for "Model Input Parameter/Energy
> Efficiency Measure" for the baseline and proposed case feeder voltage
> drop and branch circuit voltage drop.
>
> has anyone filled this out yet?  to the best of my knowledge these are
> not items than can be input into equest.  or hap.  or trace.  both are
> calculations based on the run from the service entrance to the breaker
> panel(s) and the longest run to an electrical load from the breaker
> panel(s) (the branch drop).
>
> regards,
> patrick
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