It seems I spend a great deal of time with eQuest trying to reduce unmet
hours in a model. One thing I?ve tried is having eQuest produce an hourly
report of a problem zone?s temperature and T-stat setting, exporting the
data to Excel and then searching it for patterns. This approach has a few
problems:

1. I can barely figure out how to create the hourly report I?m looking for.
The reporting function (in the Detailed Data Edit mode, under Project &
Site, Hourly Reports) isn?t very intuitive, and I can?t find any
documentation on it. Has anyone found the docs on this? (I?m currently
working through the relevant sections of the DOE 2-2 Dictionary, trying to
cross reference between the inputs to eQuest and the BDL file generated from
those inputs. I?m just wondering if there?s a short-cut somewhere.)
2. Once I get the data in Excel and do some filtering, I can never get the
exported data to match the unmet hours found in report SS-R. The Excel
analysis seems to always overstate the unmet hours. Has anyone had any luck
reproducing the SS-R values? Any ideas?
3. I?d like to hear other user?s experience. Do you find that resolving
unmet hours is a significant part of your modeling time?

Steve Samenski, PE, LEED AP