Siamak, The algorithms for getting hourly solar from a single monthly number can sometimes give you this error, particularly at the hours when the sun is rising and setting. Getting the error at 400 timesteps during the year is not a guarantee that there is anything wrong but it is more frequent than normal. The two most common errors are in setting two of the parameters for Type16. Make sure that you have the Type16 parameter for the day of the simulation start correct and make sure that you have your shift between solar and local times correct. The shift should be specified for the weather data location, not for the actual solar collector location (if those two are different). Kind regards, David siamak khorrami wrote:
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