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Hello community,
Please I have an issue with connecting the solar collector and thermal storage with type163 (that is calling a python code that models a drying room). Here is what shows when I run the simulation. Please if you have the solution don't ignore my request. Thank you.
Salwa,
I don't think the problem actually has to do with Type163. The error message that you attached suggests that there is a problem reading from one of the data files. My suspicion would be that if you look in the location of your weather data file, you'll find a file with the correct name but with a 0kB size. This is an unfortunate "feature" of Fortran. If you try to open a file that doesn't exist, regrettably Fortran will create an empty file with the same name at that location. Then the next time you try, the file is found but since it is empty, the read fails. In TRNSYS what often happens is that you point to a weather file that doesn't exist, you run the simulation. You get an error and then when you run the simulation again the file is found but is empty.
kind regards,
David
