Weather files

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Hi,

I'm Dayani from Sri Lanka and i'm trying to use the eQUEST to model the
energy consumption of a building. But in the eQUEST, Sri Lanka has not
given as a location. So i want to know whether there is anyway to generate
the weather files compatible with eQUEST?

Thank you very much for your kind corporation.

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Dayani Nayantha

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There are Energy Plus .epw weather files for many international
locations. There seem to be 9 locations for Sri Lanka. See here:
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weather_data.cfm

At DOE2.com in the download area under weather utilities, there is an
EPW to bin file converter (eQ_WthProc) which will convert from energy
plus weather to binary (.bin) files that DOE2 and eQUEST will read. See
here:
http://doe2.com/index_Wth.html#eQ_WthProc

Good luck!

Brian

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Thank you very much for your kind help.
I tried the bin file converter, but it's given me a error message "Invalid
file name". And the file downloaded from "Trane" website,
http://www.trane.com/Commercial/DesignAnalysis/weather.aspx seems working.
But they also don't have weather files for Sri Lanka.
Moreover, is there anyway that we can input weather data and create a .bin
file? because the weather data files that available are not for 2011 it
seems.
Again thank you very much for helping me out.

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