Air Flow Following Occupancy Schedule

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Dear All,

I am modeling a VAV 100% OA lab facility in eQuest and am running into a
problem with my air flow schedule. I would like to have a minimum air flow
requirement with setbacks during unoccupied hours. I have set FLOW/AREA
(and have also tried setting MIN-FLOW/AREA) and have created a Min Flow
Schedule with values of 1.0 during occupied times and .35 during unoccupied
hours. My FLOW/AREA takes affect but for some reason the air flow doesn't
follow my Min Flow Schedule. I have noticed that instead it exactly follows
my occupancy schedule.

Has anyone come across this before? I'm wondering if there is a setting I
am not considering that overrides my flow schedule. Any advice is
appreciated.

Thanks.

Billy Vreeland

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I managed to resolve my issue with a good suggestion from a co-worker early
this morning. Looking in my INP file, my HMIN-FLOW-SCH was defaulted to my
occupancy schedule. Commenting this out (or switching it to my air flow
schedule) has fixed the problem I was seeing.

Billy Vreeland

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