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Building 7 02 / 41

Building 7 ran off-schedule 18 nights

Should drop to 62° once the building empties. Instead it has held the daytime setpoint_override every night since the March 4 change. That costs you $4,920 so far.

Activity
Ponytail created this finding from the overnight scan · 2min ago
Triage added labels Off-schedule and HVAC · 2min ago
MO
M. Ortiz · 4 min ago
That was the weekend event override. Looks like nobody reverted it.
JK
jordan · just now
@Ponytail can you revert this in the schedule?
Ponytail moved from Watch to Needs a fix · just now
Ponytail overnight – ⤢ ✕
Ponytail connected to B7-2703
Examining Building 7's overnight schedule…
Worked for 7s ▾
Found the override. Proposed change:
· schedule.bms : restore 7pm setback
· setpoint : 72° → 62° after 7pm
Changed 1 setpoint+1-1Preview
schedule ← fix/b7-setback-revert
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