Wednesday, October 1, 2014

eQuest–How To Get Started

In class today I started to demonstrate eQuest, but it wasn’t available.  I’ve been informed that it is now available on all the machines.

If you wish to explore it I recommend the following:

  • The built-in help files – they’re quite good
  • the eQuest Manual prepared by former student Ellen Peng.  It’s in the Resources folder available in the menu on the left.
    • This is a bit more detailed than you need – you accept defaults for many of the choices she discusses.
  • The essence of what you do is:
    1. Build a model of your building in the Schematic Design Wizard
    2. Run a simulation of that building using a year’s weather for a location you choose in the USA (choose a US location with a similar climate for other countries)
    3. Look at the graphs of energy usage
    4. Go back to the Schematic Design Wizard and look at the charts that have been built showing the size of the components.

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