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Hello all ... how can I add a roller shutter component under the trnsys 16 or 17 please?
@magraoui_chaima how you define shading depends a bit on what is being shaded. If you are shading the window of a Type56 building then you can define the shading factor (treated as a value between 0 and 1) in TRNBuild as an input at which point that input will show up among your Type56 inputs. How you define the value of the input will depend on how the shade is controlled. If the shutter is open during part of the day and closed during part of the day then you could define a forcing function using Type14. If the shutter is open or closed based on the amount of solar radiation then you can look to Type2 or another of the controller components that monitor a value and compare it to a setpoint. If the shutter's control is more complicated then you might need to use a few Types and combine their outputs into a single 0-1 value using an equation block.
~david
