Welcome to the TRNSYS Users Forum.

The forum is a place where people can interact and have discussions about different topics involving the use of the TRNSYS software package. Here you can post topics for discussion or questions on using TRNSYS and get advice from other users or TRNSYS experts. This forum is not intended for detailed technical support. Users should contact their distributor’s hotline for such assistance.

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Topics: 30 / Replies: 196
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Answer to: Type 47 and Type 48. Battery and inverter compability

@tobiaaas The most important parameters for Type47 are the cell energy capacity, number of cells in series and number of cells in parallel. Those th...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Since adding the geopositions in TRNBuild, a vfm file is no longer created

@leomodra this sounds like an issue that might be best addressed to your Trnsys distributor. If you are not sure who to contact please contact me di...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Combine Li-Ion Battery (TESS Type 549) with Inverter (Type 48)

@jan-geier It may be that not all of the modes of Type48 are compatible with Type549. However, Type48b is used with Type549a in the example that you...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Type for a field of Borehole Heat Exchangers with free location of boreholes

@charles-maragna I am not aware of the Université de Montréal models that are based on g-functions. I would be very interested in dusting them off i...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Transient energy storage in tanks of phase change materials

@charles-maragna I would recommend trying to contact the authors of the paper. You might also look at Prof Katherine D'Avignon's work specifically at ...

1 year ago
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RE: Issue with linking Matlab file with TRNSYS

@salwa When we compile Type155, we have to link it to four *.lib files. The *.lib file that is referenced in your screen capture (libmx.dll) is one o...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Issue with linking Matlab file with TRNSYS

@salwa It is a bit unclear to me when the error is occurring. Do you get this error as soon as you launch the coupled simulation? If so then I would...

1 year ago
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RE: my tip for fixing Internal error in solar radiation distribution (sumsitot) in TRNSYS

@dromar123 thank you for the tip. Would you be willing to share what data you found to be erroneous and how you modified it to get that particular gla...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Adaptive Comfort Model

@m-m yes. The Trnsys18 building model has a PMV/PPD calculation built in. There is also a component in the TESS Libraries v18 that provides a little...

1 year ago
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Answer to: How can I fix the error of 'wall must be adjacent to a different zone' when my wall is?

@eman_mag I have not encountered that error; would you mind posting the *.idf (and *.b18 file if one is being generated) so that I can have a look? ...

1 year ago
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RE: TRNSYS, Type29

@academictester and @petaxa @petaxa @academictester is correct; I did apparently fix this issue with a v18 release. The v17 copy that I was using ...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Is there any tool in TRNSYS to perform a kind of inverse technique to estimate unknown parameters of a component based on experimental data?

@ken The way that I usually do this is to use TRNOpt (part of the TESS Optimization library). Essentially you can define a cost function (in your ca...

1 year ago
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RE: Active Layer Settings

@Manaya_ Your English is excellent! Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your follow up. I believe that the active layer mode...

1 year ago
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Answer to: Type 45a: how to modify the friction factor?

@ken I believe that equation 4.9.2-5 applies to the collector inlet and outlet pipes whereas the other equation applies to the pipes and risers tha...

1 year ago
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RE: How to modify the set value of the maximum of a parameter of a TRNSYS proforma?

@ken It may be worth noting that sometimes the limits that are placed on proformas are there because of limitations in the code. For instance, Type45...

1 year ago
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