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Re: [TRNSYS-users] Type 9 data reader



Stefan,
The first thing to check is that you specify your simulation time step, you do not just set the units to "minutes" and set a value of 1. The Studio rounds that value and writes it to the input file as a decimal hour equivalent and it isn't always accurate (ie you don't end up with exactly 15 timesteps per data file line in your case).

Instead, write the following in the simulation cards window at the bottom of the "control cards" (where you set the time step)

EQUATIONS 1
delt = 1/60

then select "string" for the units of your time step and set the time step value to "delt"

That will ensure that you have a true 1 minute timestep.

As for the other parameters of Type9, I suspect that what is happening is that the interpolation of your data is getting messed up due to an initial value problem. My solution (as clumsy and unscientific as it is) is to fiddle around with the initial value, instantaneous/average, and mode parameters until I get a Type65 plot that looks like it "should" look

Best,
David



On 7/19/2010 06:10, thiemann.stefan@vdi.de wrote:
Hi everybody,

i tried to read a data file with a 1/4 h time interval of average data
  in a 1 min simulation. If I set "Averareous or instantenous value" to
  "average" I got some wrong curve and the values seemed to be mirrored
  on the x axis. Can anybody help me to better understand the
  behanviour of type 9?

P.S: I doesnt seem to depend on the data reader mode...

Many thanks, Stefan



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