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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: using EnergyPro for thermal comfort analysis





Sorry If I seemed snappy, Good luck learning Energy plus, and also I have seen Energy Pro Files translated to Energy Plus before, if that would be helpful I can send you the contact to the person who I have seen produce Energy Pro to Energy Plus conversions, the reason Energy pro can not do PMV calcs, and also an issue in conversion is Energy Pro creates a box rather then real geometry so the surface temperature calculations needed to calculate PMV is not possible. I have heard of "work around" for eQuest, but not for Energy pro, but hey you have made it this far, so might-as well try out Energy Plus,  eQuest, Energy Pro and other DOE2 tools in my opinion are deceptively simple to get started with, then when your deep into your model you run into a limitation in the software, a rarely occurring in Energy Plus. 

Best regards 


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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Jean marais <jeannieboef@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 

I was about to say the same as Linda. In your energyplus folder that comes when you install energyplus, there is a documents subfolder. The main document for referal is the inputoutput referance guide (io ref). search for the object called PEOPLE. This will show you which fields must be filled in to ask the program to calculate comfort factors. Look at the outputs of this object. There you will find a list of output variables that must be declared in your input file (idf) for the program to output these (you ask the program for the outputs you want, not all at once).

If you are really getting started, I would suggest doing the excersizes in the "getting started" documentation and/or downloading a trial version of Design Builder (very good user interface) to get a taste of what is all possible with the energyplus software. Use Design Builder also to export the idf file to learn the effects of your actions. And look at the many example idf files in the energyplus examples folder (also comes with the install).




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