Infiltration model in Honeybee

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Permalink Reply by Iason Bournas on February 10, 2016 at 1:41pm

Ok i searched a bit more on the possible cause of the error, and it seems that the "energySimPar" component cannot accept other values for "timestep" and "terrain" apart from the default values that are now "6" and "City" respectively. The "terrain" was the one creating the problem!

Hope it helps you great developers!

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on February 11, 2016 at 4:17pm

Hi Iason,

I'm not sure if I fully understand the relation between the first question and this comment. Back to EnergySimulationPar I just did a quick test and it works as expected. You can change both the terrain and timestep and they will change inside the .idf file.

Back to the original post can you help me to understand what is the exact EnergyPlus object that you're trying to change? Do you have a reference idf file? You should probably be able to set it up using additionalStrings_

Mostapha

Permalink Reply by Iason Bournas on February 11, 2016 at 4:34pm

Hi Mostapha,

i was checking the idf file and it was not changing neither for timestep nor for terrain. But in your snapshot it looks fine... I am opening the idf with the energyplus idf editor like you do. Here's the file. 

The object i was changing was the infiltration rate on the HB Loads component. But it seems it is working just fine (checked with idf) and my problem was with the "terrain" where i thought it was on 3 but it was stuck at 0. 

Can you explain how i can fix it?

Always thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on February 11, 2016 at 5:18pm

Hi Iason, I'm not sure if this file is generate with the same script as this discussion but if that is the case your input is set to 0. Am I right?

Permalink Reply by Iason Bournas on February 12, 2016 at 12:39am

Yes that is the file, 

eventually i put it to zero so i would not be confused. If i change it, there is no difference in the results (e.g. heating energy) and the idf shows the terrain value to be still 0. I Hope i am not confusing you... And the timestep remains constant, as the idf shows, so i also let it be 6 just to avoid confusion.

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on February 13, 2016 at 8:15pm

Ok. I took another look and it's happening because you're using a single number for shadowCalcPar input which is wrong and so the component overwrites the values to default. You should use shadow calculation parameters component to define the input parameters.

I added an extra check for the next release so it gives you a proper error message.

Permalink Reply by Iason Bournas on February 14, 2016 at 3:01am

You are right!

I didn't see that, it already says on the energysimPar component that one should use the shadowPar. My bad.

Now it works, case closed!

Thank you for your help!