I don't think so. You might want to read a variable from last time step, that would be using the name of the Output:Variable, for example System Node Mass Flow Rate, but then to actuate that state point you would use an actuated component type and actuated component control type, not the variable name. Look at some of the examples and you should see what I am talking about.
In my example, nothing in the actuator is a variable name. This example just points to a fan and sets the fan mass flow rate. It does not set the node mass flow rate, the fan does that internally.
EnergyManagementSystem:Actuator,
MySAFanFlow,
! Name
My Supply Air Fan, ! Actuated Component Unique Name
Fan, ! Actuated Component Type
Fan Air Mass Flow Rate; ! Actuated Component Control Type
Or maybe I don't understand what exactly your trying
to do. You might show a simple example of your EMS program, sensor,
and actuator so others can see what you are trying to do. On 2/14/2018 3:39 PM,
my_sunny_night@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:
Thanks again Richard. What I need to do is to actuate a variable at each timestep based on its value at its previous timestep. So, I need to have that variable as both sensor and actuator, which I don't know how to do this.
-- Richard Raustad Florida Solar Energy Center 1679 Clearlake Road Cocoa, FL 32922 Ph: (321)638-1454 http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/ Program Director Electric Vehicle Transportation Center http://evtc.fsec.ucf.edu/
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