No, In design builder, only uses year 2002 for the dates, but you can use whatever weather file.
Nancy
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On 20 Oct 2016, at 21:10, Joe Huang YJHuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am I reading this correctly that DB only accepts weather files with the year as 2002? If that's true, what's the reason? Does that mean DB is never used for simulations with actual historical weather data?
Joe
Joe Huang White Box Technologies, Inc. 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A Moraga CA 94556 yjhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data (o) (925)388-0265 (c) (510)928-2683 "building energy simulations at your fingertips"On 10/20/2016 8:24 AM, Roshmi Sen s.roshmi@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:
Dear Linda,
Thank you very much for the help. Yes, they have a converter that converts all the years to 2002. I will reach out to you if I need further help.
Roshmi
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:21 PM, katdra83@xxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can have both installed. No problem at all. When exporting from DB to e+ just check the version of the final file. You might need to update the e+ file to a later version if your DB version is a bit old.
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