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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Brian <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Thank you for your input. Once weather file was set up from January to December and checked for the file size, my energy model simulation with the custom weather file worked. One more thing though, my custom weather file doesn’t have any cloud amount information, but I went through the help files in the equest software and found this <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>“</span><span style='color:red'>Solar radiation values are generated from a clear sky model using the specified MONTH and DAY for calculating solar position. The clear sky values are then modified by the <span style='background:#3399FF'>CLOUD</span>-AMOUNT. The Loads portion of is then run with a 1 day run period for each design day. The resulting peak cooling load (for a cooling design day) and peak heating load (for a heating design day) is used to size HVAC equipment.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So, I am thinking its ok to have all cloud amt information zero, as I am not sizing the HVAC but calibrating the model for MV for LEED. Am I wrong??<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sudheera Sivakumar, </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Brian Fountain [mailto:greensimbf@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Fountain<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> Sivakumar, Sudheera<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Weather File for Energy Model Calibration<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Sudheera,<br><br>The answer to your 1st question is the weather does need to be oriented Jan to Dec. I do not, however see a problem having the Jan - Jul 2011 weather preceed the Aug-Dec 2010. Annual energy should be correct and will line up with the corresponding weather.<br><br>Can't help with the 2nd issue. <br><br>Brian<br><br>On 1/4/2012 1:08 PM, Sivakumar, Sudheera wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Folks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Happy New year. Hope everyone had wonderful holidays.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am in a process to get a custom weather file for energy model calibration for the MV process for LEED. I have a custom weather file for the time span August 1<sup>st</sup> 2010 to July 31<sup>st</sup> 2011 and ran my energy model and getting weather file error. I have some questions regarding the properties of the weather file, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does the weather file need to start from Jan to Dec or can be a full year with starting and ending months different (in my case starting Aug 2010 to July 2011)?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The .bin weather file, from the DOE website, size is 146kb and my custom .bin weather file size is 140kb, does the file size matter and how?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When I run energy model simulation with the custom .bin file, the simulations runs till dec 17<sup>th</sup> and then fails and gives me a weather file error, I checked the .csv file I received with my custom file and ensured that data is present for all days. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Any guidance or input is greatly appreciated, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Sudheera Sivakumar, EIT, LEED AP(BD +C).</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>Mechanical Designer<br>Stantec</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow , sans-serif","serif"'><a href="http://www.stantec.com/"><b><span style='color:#993333;text-decoration:none'>stantec</span></b><span style='color:#003F6E;text-decoration:none'>.com</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The content of this email is the confidential property of Stantec and should not be copied, modified, retransmitted, or used for any purpose except with Stantec's written authorization. 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