I have discovered another work around for a LEED compliance Error caused by
Equipment Controls and Load Management.

My Thermal storage system was causing the first error so I went into the INP
file and manually deleted the Equipment Controls and Load Management lines
of code. Then compliance engine worked correctly. For the second set of
errors I went ahead and changed the plenums and unconditioned zones to
conditioned zones and then ran the compliance engine.

It seems that a lot of errors can be overcome by tweaking the INP file in a
similar fashion.

$ *********************************************************

$ ** **

$ ** Metering & Misc HVAC **

$ ** **

$ *********************************************************

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

$ Equipment Controls

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

"Equipment Control 1" = EQUIP-CTRL

TYPE = COOLING

CIRCULATION-LOOP = "Chilled Water Loop"

LOADS-THRU-1 = 0.6

LOADS-THRU-2 = 1

LOADS-THRU-3 = 2

PRORATE-LOAD = NO

CHILLERS-1 = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

CHILLERS-2 = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

CHILLERS-3 = ( "Chiller1 (Screw)" )

CHILLERS-SEQ-1 = ( 1 )

CHILLERS-SEQ-3 = ( 2 )

STORE-SEQ-1 = 2

STORE-SEQ-2 = 1

STORE-SEQ-3 = 1

STORE-MAX-LOAD-1 = 0.9

STORE-MAX-LOAD-2 = 0.9

..

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

$ Load Management

$ ---------------------------------------------------------

"Load Management 1" = LOAD-MANAGEMENT

TYPE = LOOP-LOAD

CTRL-LOOP = "Chilled Water Loop"

LOADS-THRU-1 = 1.5

LOADS-THRU-2 = 0.7

EQUIP-CTRLS-1 = ( "Equipment Control 1" )

EQUIP-CTRLS-2 = ( "Equipment Control 1" )

..

JAMES F. GEERS | ARCHITECT & LEED AP