[Bldg-sim] bin weather file

Patrick Keeney 38keeney at cardinalmail.cua.edu
Wed Mar 7 12:52:42 PST 2012


Thank you Joe and Andrew,

I've got it working.  Thanks again.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Joe Huang
<yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>wrote:

> **
> *.bin is the file format used by DOE-2.1E and DOE-2.2, which is the
> underlying simulation engine for eQUEST.
> It's a surprisingly small binary file of only 148K, because the data have
> been "packed", i.e., the numbers have been combined numerically to be
> "unpacked" when read by DOE-2. This was done to minimize computer storage
> which was a consideration when DOE-2 was first designed in the early 80's.
> The downsides to these packed files are: (1) some loss of precision, and
> (2) you need special programs to convert the files into something humanly
> readable. Perhaps none of this is relevant to most users, who just need a
> *.bin weather file for their specific location and have no interest in
> looking at the weather data itself, but I throw out these two sentences
> just to explain what they are.
>
> There is no recognizable depository of *.bin files, but there are plenty
> of them floating around in various places. For example, the eQUEST web site
> ( www.doe2.com/index_Wth.html ) has a number of standard weather data
> sets, almost entirely for the US, California, and Canada.   I've also got
> NREL's new TMY3 weather files in *.bin format for 1020 US locations on my
> company website (www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/weather_data.html ).
> The eQUEST web site also has a utility program (eQ_WthProc) that allows
> users to convert EPW files to bin files.
>
> If you don't find a *.bin file meeting your needs from the above, it's
> also possible to create a *.bin file from raw weather data.  <caution -
> advertising follows :-) >   I have been offering a service to create
> weather files in *.bin (or other commonly used formats) for any location
> available in the National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) massive Integrated
> Surface Hourly (ISH) archive that contains historical weather records for
> around 8,000 international locations (1,500 in the US, 600 in Canada) going
> back to 1980.  Those interested can e-mail for details.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
> Moraga CA 94556yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.comwww.whiteboxtechnologies.com
> (o) (925)388-0265
> (c) (510)928-2683
> "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>
>
> On 3/7/2012 11:01 AM, Patrick Keeney wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> Quick question....how do I get a .bin weather file.  I'm not familiar with
> this file type.
>
> I've tried converting to a .bin in the Ecotect "Convert Weather Data" tab,
> but it won't switch whatever file you have to a .bin.
>
> Any help would be great.  Thanks.
>
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> Patrick J Keeney
> MArch-MSSD Candidate
> 410-299-5627
>
>
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