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Hello,
I am currently working on modelling a direct solar heating system on TRNSYS 18.
I would like to know if TRNSYS allows me to create a monthly scenario. Indeed, I would like to directly choose the months that I want to heat the building to facilitate my heating regulation. I would like to choose the months when my heating system absolutely has to be off.
Does TRNSYS have this function? I've got the TESS library, but I can't find a guy who can do this job.
You can define a schedule either in TRNBuild or in the TRNSYS simulation using the Type 14 forcing function. With either method, you will want to specify an annual schedule (from hour 0 to hour 8760), and specify the ON and OFF times based on the hour of the year that corresponds to the start of each month. For example, if you want your heating system to be ON from January 1 to May 31, OFF from June 1 to August 31, and ON again from September 1 to December 31, your schedule would read 1 from hour 0 to hour 3624, 0 from hour 3625 to hour 6552, and 1 from hour 6553 to hour 8760.
You can find the start hour for each hour of the month in the Settings window (gear icon) in Simulation Studio, Basic Settings tab, by changing the simulation stop time using the calendar feature on the right, and noting the corresponding hour of the year on the left.
