<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,102)">For an EPW I came up with the procedure below, (red for what you might do diffrently)</span></div><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif">Also you might look into </font>
<a href="http://weatheranalytics.com/">http://weatheranalytics.com/</a>  who can create a custom weather file for $75..<font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>

</font></font></div><div><div style><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Custom EPW</span><br>

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><ol><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Download closest EPW file</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Run and export INMBY<font color="#ff0000"> (replace this step with your weather data)</font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Use weather file converter change EPW to CSV</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open CSV in Notepad ++</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Remove header</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save as text file</span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open in excel as comma delimited </span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cut wind column, and place into custom excel sheet for editing this file type </span><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><ol>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff0000"> (replace this step with your weather data)</font></span></li>

</ol></b></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Change all hours of the year by month to INMBY extrapolated data that have monthly averages over cut in speed. </span><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><ol>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff0000"> (replace this step with your weather data)</font></span></li>

</ol></b></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Export as CSV that says </span><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">name</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EPW.CSV</span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open EPW.CSV with notepad++</span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Replace header with custom header</span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save as EPW.CSV</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open in weather converter, convert to EPW</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open new EPW file in weather file converter and generate stat file</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save .STAT file, and .EPW file with same name, and place in same folder</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open weather file in EP launch</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open IDF design conditions file in IDF editor, replace data in Windspire.IDF with design conditions from Weather file converter GENERATED idf </span><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><ol>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ff0000"> (replace this step with your weather data)</font></span></li>

</ol></b></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edit IDF in text editor, to reflect the location</span></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Run simulation.</span></li></ol>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:24 PM, xiaoyang shi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xs2144@gmail.com">xs2144@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Could I ask, how to make the weather file in eQUEST?</div><div><br></div><div>Say, I want to simulate a house energy consumption in the last year, under last year weather condition, but not the typical weather data.</div>


<div><br></div><div>How could I make the weather bin file by my own data?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div>Yang</div>
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