Equest seminars on-line?

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Hello,
I am an engineer who has been asked to do the energy modeling for a new
project. I just downloaded Equest 3-63 and am trying to find some training.
Is anyone aware of on-line training seminars for Equest 3-63?
thanks
Mike Diess, PE, LEED AP

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Hello Mike,

I also just started using eQuest (I was doing CFD before). I downloaded
the introductory tutorial, it is quite helpful to get an idea and then I
frequently use the help->DOE 2 help / Wizard help. In the forum User
Archive are also a lot of helpful questions. I do not think there are
online training seminars, I guess you have to train yourself.

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Von: Mike Diess [mailto:mike.diess at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. August 2009 18:14
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Hello,

I am an engineer who has been asked to do the energy modeling for a new
project. I just downloaded Equest 3-63 and am trying to find some
training. Is anyone aware of on-line training seminars for Equest 3-63?

thanks

Mike

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I concur with Verena. Unless you're in a state which independently is pushing the use of eQuest and sponsoring training (and there don't seem to be many), the online documentation and this listserv are about the only help you'll get. We've been at it for a year and are only beginning to gain some real confidence that we understand how to use the software.
In general we're impressed with what eQuest does ... but there is a real lack of transparency to how it works which translates into some real frustration when you see the results of your simulation. We liken it to a vending machine in which there are a variety of healthy snacks and drinks but the front of the machine is a solid panel instead of glass so you can't see the actual products and don't know what each one costs. Thus you enter your money and make a selection but you're not sure at all about what will drop out the slot at the bottom and sometimes the machine tells you that you haven't entered enough money for the item you selected. Eventually you start to see some patterns that assist you but by then you've also kicked the machine at least once and have gone to the gas station across the street to get something to eat from their junk food vending machine.
The other thing to remember is what you paid for eQuest. Given the price and learning curve other some of the software that we often use in our profession eQuest is probably a bargain even after you factor in the time you'll spend learning it. That being said, there is a desperate need for better training opportunities.
Tom O'Brien

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From: "Verena Kindl"
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Received: 8/28/2009 2:55:08 AM
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Hello Mike,
I also just started using eQuest (I was doing CFD before). I downloaded the introductory tutorial, it is quite helpful to get an idea and then I frequently use the help->DOE 2 help / Wizard help. In the forum User Archive are also a lot of helpful questions. I do not think there are online training seminars, I guess you have to train yourself.

Von: Mike Diess [mailto:mike.diess at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. August 2009 18:14
An: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Betreff: [Equest-users] Equest seminars on-line?
Hello,
I am an engineer who has been asked to do the energy modeling for a new project. I just downloaded Equest 3-63 and am trying to find some training. Is anyone aware of on-line training seminars for Equest 3-63?
thanks

Mike Diess, PE, LEED AP

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eQuesters,

I agree with Tom and have a suggestion for new users of eQuest. Before
you begin a "real" project, use the wizard to make a simple project having
the usual features, then print-out (11x17) the .inp file and study it. See
which lines of code reference the other lines of code. Reference the online
DOE2-2 dictionary. Had I known to do this regarding defining envelope and
spaces, etc., I would have saved ALOT of ridiculous re-work on my actual
project. This helps more than even the tutorial. Probably similar can be
said of the HVAC systems, etc., but someone else could speak to that better
than I.

Lars Fetzek, EI

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I am running a sim using parametrics and in my base model I have ?Cold Deck
Schedule? and ?Availability Schedule? defined and ?Cool Control? set to
Scheduled. As a parametric, I want to change the control method to warmest
and reset the cold deck schedule to default. I know how to change the
methodology to ?Warmest? but how do I change the cold deck schedule to
remove the schedule I have defined in my base model? Manually, I would
right click and ?Restore Default?. In the parametrics definition box
there is no selection for ?Undefined?.

Thanks for the help.

Bryce Munger

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Bryce:
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I am not certain, but if I had to take stab at it, you have already knocked your schedule off the tracks by going to COOL-CONTROL = WARMEST versus SCHEDULED.
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Others please comment.
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John Aulbach

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