RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] Does EnergyPlus accept multi-year weather files with arbitrary begin and end dates?

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Answer is yes -- read about:
RunPeriod:CustomRange

Tabulated results -- tabular will sum them all, they will be presented in
csv reports sequentially.


At 01:01 PM 11/22/2013, Edward G. Lyon wrote:


> My experience is no.  to do
> a winter model with actual weather data I have to make a file with
> January to June as the second year and September to December as the first
> year and then I can run a heating season model of October to May.
>  
> Ned Lyon, P.E. (MA, WV)
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> mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe
> Huang
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:08 PM
> To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Does EnergyPlus accept multi-year
> weather files with arbitrary begin and end dates?
>  
>   
>
> I suppose I can find the answers by doing some test runs, but I thought
> I'd ask and see if 
> anyone knows the answer to the question posed in my subject
> line.
>
> If EnergyPlus can accept multi-year weather files, e.g., one that goes
> from July 15, 2011 
> through July 14, 2013, how would the monthly results be tabulated
> ?
>
> Joe
>
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