Have questions for unit change problem

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on October 16, 2015 at 7:08am

Hi Xinyi, Is it a question about the accuracy of the conversion or radiation legend? Can you make your question clear and also tell us what are you exactly trying to do?

Permalink Reply by Xinyi Wu on October 16, 2015 at 9:46am

I'm sorry about that. Yes, it's about the accuracy of the conversion. and I'm wondering how ladybug recognize the numbers as WH or KWH? Since I didn't put a ladybug header, which it required, into the first panel.

Thanks a lot.

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on October 17, 2015 at 11:28am

Xinyi Wu,

This is an issue with the way that I coded these components to recognize the various different types of energy/flux values (Wh, kWh, Wh/m2, or kWh/m2).

Because the units that you were plugging in were all lower-case, the component was not recognizing that you were trying to convert values of flux (kWh/m2) instead of just energy (kWh).

I just wrote in a more robust means of identifying your units so it should now work in your case (see components attached and on the github).

Thanks for pointing this out,

-Chris

Attachments:

• FixedConverterComponents.gh, 351 KB

Permalink Reply by Xinyi Wu on October 19, 2015 at 1:04pm

Chris,

Thanks! That's very helpful.

I would try to plug that into the grasshopper.