[Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation

Nick Caton ncaton at smithboucher.com
Tue Oct 18 11:34:33 PDT 2011


I've known the system-per-zone/other entry to affect this behavior, so
is the takeaway here that varying ceiling heights will also cause the
wizards to create per-zone plenums?

 

~Nick

 

 

 

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Brad L.
Huff
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:16 PM
To: 'Umesh Atre'; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation

 

That worked, thank you.

 

Brad Huff, E.I.T., LEED Green Associate, Mechanical Engineer I BVH
Integrated Services I 860.286.9171 tel I 860.242.0236 fax I 50 Griffin
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From: Umesh Atre [mailto:umesh at innovativedesign.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:24 AM
To: Brad L. Huff; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation

 

If you were to remove the 2-story atrium space with the skylights, you
might get your single plenum per floor.

 

 

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Brad L.
Huff
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:07 AM
To: 'equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org'
Subject: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation

 

I have found this subject discussed on the forums previously. However,
eQuest does not seem to be cooperating with me. I am attempting to
create one plenum zone per floor. I specified in the dd wizard one HVAC
system per floor but it is still creating plenum zones for every space.
This is going to be a 250,000 FT^2 building when I am finished with all
the shells. I have found in the past that when I get buildings this
large, eQuest begins running slow especially with multiple parametric
runs. I found that one way to alleviate this problem is to have on
plenum zone per floor.  Any help would be appreciated. Attached are the
.inp and the .pd2 files.

 

Thank you

 

Brad Huff, E.I.T., LEED Green Associate, Mechanical Engineer I BVH
Integrated Services I 860.286.9171 tel I 860.242.0236 fax I 50 Griffin
Road South, Bloomfield CT 06002 I .bvhis.com <http://www.bvhis.com/>  I
twitter.com/bvhis I Hartford  Boston 

 

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