I see. Changing the ground temperature makes sense if the average annual temperature of your climate is greater than your room setpoint temperature. In that case, you might want to set it to be ~2C above your room cooling setpoint rather than ~2C below a typical heating setpoint (18C).
For the additional strings, all that I do is the following:
- Create the EnergyPlus object that I want in the IDFEditor.
- Save the IDF and open it in a text editor like notepad or Notepad++
- Copy the object from the text editor into a panel and connect it to
add_str_
And that’s it. No need to learn the specifics of the the IDF syntax as the IDF Editor takes care of it all for you. Also, the use of tabs and spaces in the IDF syntax is not very strict. So you could change the tabs/spaces a lot and it would still be valid. As long as your commas and semi-colons are in the right place.
FYI, the Simulation Parameter component now has the terrain input:
You can get it with the “LB Versioner” component.