[Bldg-sim] Spam:Re: TMY3 Released with 1020 US Locations

[James Hess]

Randy,

I very much appreciate that information!

Thank you

Regards,

JAH

James A. Hess, PE, CEM
Energy Engineering Team Leader

5800 Evergreen Drive
Little Rock, AR 72205
Office: (501) 666-6776, x2172
Mobile: (501) 351-4667
www.tmecorp.com

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[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Randy Wilkinson
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:21 PM
To: bldg-sim at onebuilding.org
Subject: Spam:Re: [Bldg-sim] TMY3 Released with 1020 US Locations

Be aware that what NREL calls TMY2 weather data is true text based TMY2 
weather data per their original definition.  DOE2 (eQuest) uses a binary 
version of the TMY2 weather files.  The binary version is about 1/10th 
the file size of the original text based TMY2 file.  You need to use 
another weather processor to convert the true TMY2 into a binary version 
(xxxxxx.BIN) for use with eQuest.  You can't just rename the file as it 
sounds like you did.

step 1 - Get the TMY3 weather file for your location
step 2 - Use NREL's TMY3toTMY2 converter to convert it to TMY2
step 3 - Use DOE2 or EnergyPlus weather utilities to convert the text 
based TMY2 weather file to a binary version for use with DOE2 (eQuest)

I think you skipped step 3.

Randy Wilkinson

James Hess wrote:
> Great news on the TMY3 weather data.  We want to start using it in eQuest.
>
> However, FYI... in order to test the new TMY3 files out, we downloaded a
TMY3
> weather file for Little Rock, AR.  Then we converted the TMY3 file to TMY2
> (using same name as TMY2 --> LITTLEAR.BIN ), placed it in a new folder
under
> eQuest weather (Weather\TMY3) then tried to use in eQuest and got an error,
> and the simulation would not run.
>
> Is there any additional information that we need to know in order to make
> this work?
>
>   
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