[Equest-users] A REALLY good question..

[Aulbach, John]

Kendra:

I deleted the .INP file, and I still get the "Invalid filename"
displayed.

Thoughts?

John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM
Project Manager
Nexant, Inc.
701 West Kimberly Ave., Suite 245
Placentia, CA 92870-6342 USA
Phone: 714-524-4402
Fax: 714-524-4407
email: jaulbach at nexant.com
 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kendra Tupper [mailto:ktupper at rmi.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Scott Criswell; Aulbach, John
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] A REALLY good question..

I agree - I just recently took an EnergyPlus weather file from Kenya
(all metric units), and converted to a .bin file for eQUEST use. When I
ran the weather file with eQUEST, I exported hourly outside air dry
bulbs and wet bulbs to make sure conversion occurred properly. The
hourly OA conditions exported by eQUEST (in IP units) matched what was
originally in the EnergyPlus file. 

There are a few bugs in the conversion process separate from this - its
common to get an error message saying "invalid file name". If you delete
the log, this usually fixes this.


On 9/25/08 9:35 AM, "Scott Criswell" <scott.criswell at doe2.com> wrote:

> Disclaimer - I am not the expert on this stuff, but got the following 
> info from those that are...
> 
> ALL EnergyPlus weather files are in metric.  I don't believe that 
> there is such a thing as an EnergyPlus weather file in British units.

> The EnergyPlus -> eQ/DOE-2 weather converter was therefore implemented

> to always perform this units conversion.
> 
> 
> Aulbach, John wrote:
>> Many have touted the ability of eQuest to turn an Energy Plus weather

>> file into a compatible eQuest bin file.
>>  
>> But, aha, eQuest cannot fly in metric (as could DOE-2.1e). And the 
>> Asian weather file of concern is in metric.
>>  
>> NOW what?
>>  
>> John Aulbach
>>  
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