Daylight factor sky

Hey guys,

I'm setting up a model for a DF simulation, and I was wondering where you specify the latitude of the building? As I remember, you used to specify it in the recipe component but you can't do that anymore. Is it moved somewhere else?

I wrote the .rad files and there comes a 1000_lux.sky file. Is that used to make the CIE overcast sky?

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on December 6, 2015 at 8:37pm

Hi Christian, Daylight Factor is a geometrical calulation and as you have already realized the location and orientation won't change the results for DF. Read pages 9-12 of this document for more information about different daylight measures.

Permalink Reply by Christian Kongsgaard on December 7, 2015 at 2:05am

Yeah I get that, but will the light intensity of the overcast sky not change at different laditudes?

Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on December 7, 2015 at 2:41am

You can ask the same regarding orientation. But no. DF is kind of neutral regarding local climatic considerations.

That's why DF is less and less "accepted" nowadays.

-A.

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on December 7, 2015 at 6:38am

It can be different but that as Abraham said it won't change the value of DF.

DF is the ratio of the indoor illuminance to the outdoor horizontal illuminance under overcast sky. If the value of the sky changes the amount of light at the point will also change but the ratio (DF) will stay the same. (10000 to 200 or 20000 to 400 have the same ratio)

If you want to calculate lux values under overcast sky, you can use CIE sky component and generate an overcast sky and set-up a grid-based analysis.

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