Re: Antw: Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Boiler name longer than 40 chars cause strange results!

["Michael J. Witte" <mjwitte@xxxxxxxx>]

Some equipment types will do this in EnergyPlus.  (I could go into a long 
explanation, but the short answer is that some of this will change in 2006.)

In this particular case, there are several options.  a)  Schedule the 
baseboards off during the summer season.  b)  Use the single heating sepoint 
control all year  c) Set the control type schedule to zero during the summer 
months.  

On 14 Dec 2005, at 9:39, Christian Schiefer wrote:

> Linda,
> sorry for the faulty copy of the window data. 
> Yes, for this example I've used the version 1.2.1. After conversion to 1.2.3 the
> problem was gone :)
> 
> But another problem with this simple example arises:
> The zone control defines single heating (winter period setpoint 22°C) / single
> cooling (summer period setpoint 26°C). Actually there is no system for cooling,
> so I thought that the baseboard heater trys to reach the 22° setpoint and
> ignores the cooling setpoint. But this isn't the case. If you run a simulation
> for the whole year, you see that the baseboard heater heats during the summer
> period to reach the cooling setpoint of 26°.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Christian
> 
> PS: It would be really helpfull to improve the interface of idf converting tool.
> It's not really state of the art that you have to type in the filename - you
> can't even use copy and paste. A file selection dialog which supports multiple
> selection would be nice.
> 
> 
> >>> linda@xxxxxxxxxx 13.12.2005 17:10 >>>
> 
> The good news is that this is not a problem in the current release 
> version of V1.2.3  (I compared the two outputs and they are 
> identical).  There was a problem (undetected) in earlier versions and 
> apparently you hit on it.
> 
> One problem with your submission was that the Window5 Data file got 
> truncated somehow -- only 73 characters per line.  I substituted 
> one.    And that fact (the truncated lines) caused a crash -- which 
> we will have to look into so it exits more gracefully in the April 
> 2006 release.
> 
> If you download V1.2.3, either now or when the interim is released, 
> you will need to transition those files but it is a menu select item 
> out of EP-Launch (that's what I used when I figured it out -- and I 
> think perhaps a one step (seemed to work) from your V1.2.1 files).
> 
> 
> Linda
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Michael J. Witte, GARD Analytics, Inc.
EnergyPlus Testing and Support      
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