Prashant,TRNSYS can read energyplus weather files as well as TMY2 (also various other formats as well). If you are using Trnsys16 you can read energyplus weather files using Type89 and process the radiation data with Type16. If you are using Trnsys17 then Type15 both reads and processes E+ weather files. *.tm2 files are text. If you obtain the file format (showing which columns in the data file pretain to which values) then you can open the files in Excel and adjust the column delimiters so that editing is easy. The TMY2 file format is described in NREL's TMY2 documentation: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/tmy2/ (click on the "documentation" link. Type56's outputs are more generally energy balance outputs (total convective gains to the airnodes of a zone, radiation gains from a particular surface). When I need to give the gains from lighting, equipment, etc. to the space and I also care about the power use of those things then typically, I set up the Type56 gains as inputs to the model and I write equations in the TRNSYS Studio to set the values of the gains at any given point in time. Those same equations also give me the energy consumption of those devices. Again it is easiest to do this outside of Type56 and then pass the appropriate values in to Type56 via an input. There are various schedule components available in the add-on TESS Libraries Applications Library. You can also set up a Type14 forcing function for scheduling in standard TRNSYS. TRNBuild does not currently have a method for saving schedules for reuse in other projects. Kind regards, david -- *************************** David BRADLEY Principal Thermal Energy Systems Specialists, LLC 22 North Carroll Street - suite 370 Madison, WI 53703 USA P:+1.608.274.2577 F:+1.608.278.1475 d.bradley@tess-inc.com http://www.tess-inc.com http://www.trnsys.com |