Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Energyplus interior window s solar gain output reporting bug

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you report this to the helpdesk?

There are two flavors of those output variables -- make sure you're
reporting the sum and not the average one.


On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:50:06 -0000, "aymericnovel" <nanabush@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> It has been a little while I posted an enquiry about a problem I saw in
> solar gains reporting for interior windows.
> 
> 1) If one goes at surface level output (Beam solar through Interior
Window
> and Initially Transmitted Diffuse...) the amount of solar gains is
correct
> and consistent with calculated sensible cooling loads.
> 
> 2) BUT if one uses the zone level output (Zone Beam/Diffuse Solar
Through
> Interior Window) to report the sum of the surfaces outputs, then it
doesn't
> correspond and is largely underestimated.
> 
> Did anyone ever notice this?
> 
> BR,
> Aymeric
> 
> 
>