Honeybee Energy Shade Benefit Evaluator BUG

Mostapha and Chris,

I think there is a bug with the Honeybee Energy Shade Benefit Evaluator component.

When I connect a Ladybud_LegendParameter it changes the minimum and maximum boundaries of the legend, although I have no values plugged in.

I attach the relevant images and GH file.

Thanks a lot!

Dimitris

Attachments:

Replies are closed for this discussion.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on March 16, 2015 at 5:32pm

Ah. Now I understand. If you are planning to use the comfort shade benefit to evaluate building shade, you should usually send the zone Operative temperatures through the ZoneData input of the Zone Shade component. This way, you can evaluate the shades in terms of indoor comfort (although this is probably only meaningful when your building is not conditioned).

If you want to evaluate your building shade in terms of outdoor comfort (which seems a bit weird but nonetheless possible), all that you have to do is duplicate the outdoor air temperature data to match the number of windows like so:

The attached file shows how to do all 3 of these cases (Energy, Indoor Comfort, Outdoor Comfort)

-Chris

Attachments:

Shade_Benefit_Evaluation_01_AY_CWM.gh, 683 KB

Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on March 17, 2015 at 1:15am

Thanks Chris,

Understood. makes sense now. Of course the outdoors option doesn't make much sense. I just remember the earlier versions of this component where the energy simulation wasn't implemented.

So, this is one of the cases where you can say that even though this is possible to do, you don't want to. So applicable in computers simulation ...

-A.

Permalink Reply by Dimitrios Papadopoulos on March 10, 2015 at 3:17pm