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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: loading weather data files, and other seemingly basic tasks.



Thanks Mike,
The weather file thing seems obvious now. 

So how do you load in material datasets to an existing idf profile?


--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michael J. Witte" 
<mjwitte@g...> wrote:
> At www.energyplus.gov, there are hundreds of weather files in epw 
format.  Add 
> one or more RunPeriod objects to you idf file to specify a range of 
dates to be 
> simulated from a weather file.  Also, make sure that the Run 
Control objects is 
> set for "Do the weather file simulation=Yes".  Then in EP-Launch, 
select the 
> desired weather file prior to running the simulation.
> 
> In the EnergyPlus...\Datasets folder, you will find idf files 
containing many 
> predefined objects for materials, constructions, etc.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 20 Sep 2004, at 23:53, Eric wrote:
> 
> > I'm somewhat new to the world of energy modeling, I'm having 
trouble 
> > finding out how to load and use weather files. I downloaded a 
site 
> > which gave me 10 or so IWC files. Could you please tell me how to 
> > incorporate them into idfeditor?
> > 
> > Also is there any easier way to load in material and light data 
other 
> > than searching for values and typing them in manually? I've 
looked 
> > into using designbuilder which seems to have some preloaded data, 
but 
> > the program doesn't look quite developed enough to meet our needs 
> > yet. It does look promising for the future though.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> ========================================================
> Michael J. Witte, GARD Analytics, Inc.
> EnergyPlus Testing and Support      
> EnergyPlus-Support@g...



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