RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: A query regarding the format of epw files

[Jim Dirkes <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, v7.1 can use longer years.  Check out the RunPeriod:customRange object



From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dru Crawley
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:31 PM
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: A query regarding the format of epw files





All the Typical Meteorological Year type EPWs are 8760 hours.  If you create an EPW from actual weather ,it can have 8784.





On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Linda Lawrie <<mailto:linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Yes, they are all full years.  And no leap years.



At 01:37 PM 7/17/2012, karthikthalappully wrote:

> Thank you all for the reply .
> 
> I needed one more clarification . Does all the processed weather files given in the energy plus website have same number of rows ( 8760 hrs )  ?
> 
> Regards,
> Karthik Thalappully
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> --- In <mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linda Lawrie <<mailto:linda@...>linda@...> wrote:
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> >
> > >1) What is " data periods "?
> >
> > DATA PERIODS is the name of the header record -- as you have shown.
> > an option would be, for example:
> > DATA PERIODS,2,1,Data,Sunday, 1/ 1,3/31,1,Data2,Tuesday,4/1,12/31
> >
> >
> > >2)Are the values in this row used to build the data records .
> >
> > These values indicate how the data records following should be
> > read/interpreted.
> >
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