What (exactly) is your problem? Do you think the sunshade cooling load is too small?
James V Dirkes II, PE, BEMP, LEED AP
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From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:03 PM
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Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Trying to simulate a sunshade but having difficulties
Hi
I'm trying to model a basic structure (its a tent) very low 'R' values as you would expect so I would presume that cooling and heating loads are high - I'm trying to push results to look for problems by using a weather file for Egypt!
The tent has a sunshade effectively enveloping the structure on 4 of its 6 sides with a 300mm stand off from the main tent so I expect a decrease in cooling load with the sunshade fitted however the summary results don't seem realistic, its as :
Without sunshade, even when the outside air temp is 45C the max cooling load is calculated as
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