Custom Chiller Curves

grasshopper ironbug
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Trying to define the curves of two identical chillers. Everything is fine until I plug in the Bicubic curve to the Electric Input to Cooling Output Ratio Function of Part Load Ratio Curve Name variable

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Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I have attached the GH file
Chillers.gh (16.2 KB)

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@Elliot_Glassman

Curve for “EItoCORFofPLR” has to be quadratic curve

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-Mingbo

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Hmm. That’s interesting. I am trying to replicate the chiller curves from a chiller specified in IDF file and it is given in terms of Bicubic. Is there a chiller component that will allow me to do this?

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The curve type is defined in Openstudio API.
If that is the case, you might want post a question for OpenStudio team in their github.

https://openstudio-sdk-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/cpp/OpenStudio-2.8.0-doc/model/html/classopenstudio_1_1model_1_1_chiller_electric_e_i_r.html

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Ah… I was trying to replicate a REFORMULATEDEIR chiller, which does not seem to be supported by open studio yet.