[Bldg-sim] Fwd: RE: Conversion for Hourly data

[M F A Ramadan]

----- Forwarded message from M F A Ramadan <M.Fahmy at sheffield.ac.uk> -----
    Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2008 22:08:26 +0000
    From: M F A Ramadan <M.Fahmy at sheffield.ac.uk>
Reply-To: M F A Ramadan <M.Fahmy at sheffield.ac.uk>
 Subject: RE: [Bldg-sim] Conversion for Hourly data
      To: andy at designbuilder.co.uk

Many thanks Andy for your concern and for all colleagues in this issue

But would you please describe in brief steps of reading a new weather file
rather than that automatically loaded. I did like what you said in the EP+ dat
file produced from METEONORM to add my new records, but how to read this in
DB? 
Moreover, when trying to convert the modified dat file using the DB conversion
tool it gave me an error saying "Error processing the hourly weather file
possibly caused by a format error"  !!

Best regards,
Mohamad.

Quoting Andy Tindale <andy at designbuilder.co.uk>:

> DesignBuilder expects the full 8760 hourly records and it won't work
> without. However, you could use your special 7 records to overwrite the
> equivalent dates in a full years hourly weather data file for the same
> location and it should work OK in DB and E+
> 
> Andy Tindale
> DesignBuilder
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org]On Behalf Of Linda Lawrie
>   Sent: 03 December 2008 16:08
>   To: M F A Ramadan
>   Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
>   Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Conversion for Hourly data
> 
> 
>   The weather converter from EnergyPlus might be able to be used but 9 hours
> is probably not acceptable to run DB or EnergyPlus.
> 
>   need at least 24 hours.  (Which of course, you could make up once you have
> the basic file).
> 
>   The CSV format that the EnergyPlus weather program allows you to use would
> allow you to hand edit the data to the desired number of hours.
> 
>   Linda Lawrie
>   EnergyPlus Development Team
> 
>   At 04:33 AM 12/3/2008, M F A Ramadan wrote:
> 
>     I have to convert 9 hours measured data to epw, i tried to use
> METEONORM, but in
>     the Hourly import step alltime conclude in error message "error in file
> read"
> 
>     And is it accepted by DesignBuilder to have that 9 hours epw file
> regardless
>     that METEONORM can generate such a file!!
> 



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