Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] EPW TMY3 Weather Data Valid?

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Whether they are or not is little difference to those using
them for EnergyPlus as EnergyPlus does not use illuminance values from
the EPW files.

Linda

At 01:12 PM 1/14/2009, ebshen1 wrote:
> Hello, at the NREL link to the
> TMY3 source data:
>
> http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2005/tmy3/
>
> I saw this notice:
>
> 20-AUG-2008 NOTICE
>
> All illuminance and luminance values for all TMY3 stations from January
> 2 to 31 should be multiplied by 100 to obtain the correct units of Lux
> and Candela per square meter. NREL will be posting a corrected data set
> in the near future. 
>
>
> Does this mean that the January illuminance and luminance values in the
> TMY3 EPW files are incorrect?
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