We asked the faculty of a new lab to list their likely plug loads...
"The lights are for heat. We use them intermittently to extract aquatic parasites from snails. The heat from the light causes the parasite to swim out of the snail into the water. It was a bit challenging to estimate the usage of these lights because it depends on how successful we are at finding parasites."
Regards,
~Bill
William Bishop, PE, BEMP, BEAP, CEM, LEED AP | Pathfinder Engineers & Architects LLP
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Great (and funny) example, Bill, of digging into the actual operations of a
client. How can a model hope to "model" real operations if it's not
informed well by the client and implemented by the modeler?
It's also a good example of how, even with the best available information,
a model can fail to reflect actual operations.