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Hi,
I want to define the lights to turn on during the weekdays and not during the weekends. To reduce the energy gain, I need to turn the lights off in case the illuminance is high enough. When I select the "Light_6W/m2" and add the daylight control "on/off" with 300 and 500 values, "Scale 2" in the Gains/Loss section deactivates and I cannot add the schedule to it. How can I fix it? It is however working with "Light_10W/m2".
One other question I have is that the "Light_6W/m2" and "Light_10W/m2" are "gain related to reference floor area". Should I add the floor area to the "Scale 1" for instance or it will internally calculates the value. In case I want it to calculate the energy gain automatically, should I change the value of "ref. floor area" in "airnode regime data" to the floor area manually?
Best
Shams
Shams, I realize this doesn't answer your question very directly. However, I find the lighting controls that are built into TRNBuild a bit limiting so I tend to tell TRNBuild that my lighting gains will be an input to the model (instead of a scheduled or a constant value). I can then use whatever combination of components and equations I want on the outside and use an equation block to define the lighting gain that I then pass into Type56.
When you check the box that a gain is related to the floor area then Type56 will pick up the value of "ref. floor area" and apply it to the gain automatically. You do not need to specify the floor area in either of the scaling factors.
kind regards,
David
