[TRNSYS-users] Type 25 (Printer) Question

[Santiago Naranjo Palacio <sn377@cornell.edu>]

Dear TRNSYS-Users,

 

I am working with TRNSYS 16 and dont have access to Fortran on this computer

 

I was wondering if it is possible for the printer to just print one value and on the subsequent time step overwrite the previously written value. I want to do this because I am running a very long simulation and dont want the program to crash (once it has written too many values on one document) and also because I am reading these values using Labview and want to avoid problems with the reading.

 

As a side note. I am having some troubles with the data reader (I managed to do what I wanted, but it is probably not the nicest way). I am reading data from LabView and I also only one to read one value (then the value gets overwritten by LabView and I read the next value -same position- and continue the simulation). The problem with this is if I only have one value the program crashes. If I allow LabView to write 2 values, then just let TRNSYS loop through this 2 values while LabView overwrites them, I have no problem. Just wondering if there is a cleaner way of doing this.

 

PS- I will have access to LabView 17 in a couple of days. So if anyone  knows how to get around these things on TRNSYS 17 but not on 16, it would be no problem!

 

Thanks in advance for your help :)

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Santiago Naranjo Palacio