[EnergyPlus_Support] A Tip on Schedules

["Drury Crawley" <drury.crawley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A few days ago there was a question about schedules, here's a tip about the new (much easier) schedule:compact feature.

Normally you would start a schedule by creating one or more dayschedules, then a weekschedule, then a schedule.  With compact schedules, you can do it all in one command.  So this relatively simple schedule:

 DAYSCHEDULE,
    OC-1,  !- Name
    Fraction,  !- ScheduleType
    0.0,  !- Hour 1
    0.0,  !- Hour 2
    0.0,  !- Hour 3
    0.0,  !- Hour 4
    0.0,  !- Hour 5
    0.0,  !- Hour 6
    0.0,  !- Hour 7
    0.0,  !- Hour 8
    1.0,  !- Hour 9
    1.0,  !- Hour 10
    1.0,  !- Hour 11
    0.8,  !- Hour 12
    0.4,  !- Hour 13
    0.8,  !- Hour 14
    1.0,  !- Hour 15
    1.0,  !- Hour 16
    1.0,  !- Hour 17
    1.0,  !- Hour 18
    0.5,  !- Hour 19
    0.1,  !- Hour 20
    0.1,  !- Hour 21
    0.0,  !- Hour 22
    0.0,  !- Hour 23
    0.0;  !- Hour 24

  DAYSCHEDULE,
    OC-2,  !- Name
    Fraction,  !- ScheduleType
    0.0,  !- Hour 1
    0.0,  !- Hour 2
    0.0,  !- Hour 3
    0.0,  !- Hour 4
    0.0,  !- Hour 5
    0.0,  !- Hour 6
    0.0,  !- Hour 7
    0.0,  !- Hour 8
    0.0,  !- Hour 9
    0.0,  !- Hour 10
    0.0,  !- Hour 11
    0.0,  !- Hour 12
    0.0,  !- Hour 13
    0.0,  !- Hour 14
    0.0,  !- Hour 15
    0.0,  !- Hour 16
    0.0,  !- Hour 17
    0.0,  !- Hour 18
    0.0,  !- Hour 19
    0.0,  !- Hour 20
    0.0,  !- Hour 21
    0.0,  !- Hour 22
    0.0,  !- Hour 23
    0.0;  !- Hour 24

  WEEKSCHEDULE,
    OC-WEEK,  !- Name
    OC-2,  !- Sunday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- Monday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- Tuesday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- Wednesday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- Thursday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- Friday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-2,  !- Saturday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-2,  !- Holiday DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- SummerDesignDay DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-2,  !- WinterDesignDay DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1,  !- CustomDay1 DAYSCHEDULE Name
    OC-1;  !- CustomDay2 DAYSCHEDULE Name

  SCHEDULE,
    OCCUPY-1,  !- Name
    Fraction,  !- ScheduleType
    OC-WEEK,  !- Name of WEEKSCHEDULE 1
    1,  !- Start Month 1
    1,  !- Start Day 1
    12,  !- End Month 1
    31;  !- End Day 1


Can be even simpler as a compact schedule:

! Schedule Occupancy
  SCHEDULE:COMPACT,
  Occupy-1,
  Fraction,
  For: Weekdays SummerDesignDay,
  Through: 12/31,
  Until: 08:00, 0.0,
  Until: 11:00, 1.0,
  Until: 12:00, 0.8,
  Until: 13:00, 0.4,
  Until: 14:00, 0.8,
  Until: 18:00, 1.0,
  Until: 19:00, 0.5,
  Until: 21:00, 0.1,
  Until: 24:00, 0.0,
  For: Sunday Saturday Holiday WinterDesignDay,
  Through: 12/31,
  Until: 24:00, 0.0;


A set of schedules in the new compact format for commercial and residential building types came with EnergyPlus V 1.1.1.  Look for schedules.idf under datasets.  Compact schedules are described in the Input/Output Reference beginning on page 49.


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