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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] simulation time step



What kind of differences are you seeing?  They should be small, and 
hourly results should be very similar.  The hourly weather data is 
interpolated for shorter time steps.

On 3 Feb 2003, at 14:50, Adriana Angelotti wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to reproduce some experimental data on a free floating
> building with an Energy Plus simulation. I see that using different
> time steps (10m, 15m, 30m and 1h) produces different results.
> 
> So I wonder if there is some general consideration that can be used in
> the choice of the proper time step, besides the one I found on EP
> manual (15 minutes for a simulation without HVAC and 10m for a
> simulation with HVAC).
> 
> Besides this, I wonder what is the meaning of a simulation with a time
> step shorter than 1h, if the weather data time step is 1h.
> 
> 
> I would appreciate your help.
> Thank you
> 
> Adriana Angelotti
> 
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