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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Custom Weather File, constant radiation



Or you could manually enter a small value for Direct Normal in the .CSV 
so the program "thinks" the sun is up.

Linda Lawrie wrote:
>  
>
> You can, of course, have a hand manipulation that would put the values in.
>
> However, even if you do that, EnergyPlus will ignore all radiation 
> when the sun is down.
>
> At 10:41 PM 9/2/2009, gun_arrr wrote:
>> I'm trying to create a custom weather file with a constant radiation 
>> value 24-hours a day. I have modified the .CSV file accordingly, but 
>> when I use Weatherconverter to create an .EPW file the radiation is 
>> only applied during daylight hours (as seen in my output report after 
>> running a simulation).
>>
>> Is there a way to override this? How about an easy way to directly 
>> modify an .EPW file without using the Weatherconverter utility?
>
> 

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