Good Afternoon Jacob,

For maximum accuracy I recommend taking a room by room approach and specifically inputing as much information as you have about appliances, equipment, occupancy, lights etc... eQuest defaults are great... but they are just that a default.

Good Luck.

Joshua W. Talbert P.E., LEED-AP

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:38:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jacob Faiola To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Bldg-sim] zoning for a high accuracy single family dwelling
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Hi all;

I am building an eQUEST model for an international net-zero home design competition, and I am trying to maximize accuracy. Does it make sense to zone each room individually, and manually characterize the behavior of all the appliances (they will be high efficiency)? Or should I just zone the whole house?as a single-family dwelling and consider eQUEST's default loads to?be close enough? The concern is that a lot of special appliances will be used and it seems like eQUEST's defaults might?be inaccurate.

thanks,
Jacob