Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Solar radiation on a sloped surface

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:09 AM 5/24/2010, Paulo Jose Schiavon Ara
wrote:

> About this I have two
> questions:
>
>
> 1)      Is this problem being caused by the type
> of surface which I specified (shading) and in this case should I use
> another type of EnergyPlus object to model my 1m2 surface?

Yes, I don't think solar incident is reported for shading
surfaces.

>  
>
> 2)      Is it possible to obtain the results
> only for the sloped plane and not for all surfaces in my model (walls,
> windows, etc)?

Yes.

Output:Variable,<specific surface name>,Solar Ext
Incident,hourly;

(sorry, don' thave exact output variable name)

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