[Equest-users] daylighting in equest

[deepika khowal]

Hi Yusuf
did you activate the daylight sensor of each space?
only then equest will model the savings from daylighting.

Deepika

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Yusuf Turab <yusuf at ytenterprises.com>wrote:

> Dear Members
>
>               On my second day, I have now got a hang of the basics of the
> eQuest s/w. After running a few sample simulations of a very basic building
> I noticed the following:
>
>    - My fully air conditioned building with a 30% WWR returned a total
>    consumption 1545 units of energy and my lighting was 149 units. Then I
>    removed all windows making the WWR 0%, my total total consumption went down
>    to 1520 units but area lighting was still 149 units. How does eQuest
>    account for daylighting? If my building has no windows or skylights then
>    the lights have to function overtime, so how is my area lighting
>    consumption still the same? The gains that I make in the cooling; should
>    that not be mitigated with the lack of daylight?
>
>
>    - I understand that for multi-storey buildings, eQuest considers only
>    the top, ground and all middle floors are only considered to be one floor
>    and the result is simply multiplied to show the final performance. How does
>    that work? Every floor in a building might have different functions,
>    different internal loads, systems etc. How can equest only model one floor
>    and multiply the result. Would this not be inaccurate?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Yusuf Turab
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