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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] weather file



You can measure these yourself. The IR sensor is more expensive the 
others, for both the expensive sensors and the cheap sensors. You list 9 
data points, I have not looked at what measurements you would require 
out of the list you provided in order to develop a complete set of 
weather data (i.e., you may only need 4 or 5 of these to calculate all 
the others).

The expensive sensors cost $2500 ($4000 for the IR) at +-1%
The cheap sensors are more like $100 (+- 5%) (not sure you can get a 
cheap IR sensor)

Some of the manufacturers:

Epply or Kipp & Zonen make the more expensive sensors
Apogee and LiCor make cheap sensors
There are also other manufactuers

Hu,Jia wrote:
>  
> Hello all:
>  
>  I have a question about the following metrics in weather file.  
> Can they be directly measured by some inexpensive devices? 
>  
> Thank you
>  
> *Extraterrestrial Horizontal Radiation {Wh/m2}* 	*Extraterrestrial 
> Direct Normal Radiation {Wh/m2}* 	*Horizontal Infrared Radiation 
> Intensity from Sky {Wh/m2}* 	*Global Horizontal Radiation {Wh/m2}* 
> *Direct Normal Radiation {Wh/m2}* 	*Diffuse Horizontal Radiation 
> {Wh/m2}* 	*Global Horizontal Illuminance {lux}* 	*Direct Normal 
> Illuminance {lux}* 	*Diffuse Horizontal Illuminance {lux}*
>
> 

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