solar shdaing devices and loads

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bootsam
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solar shdaing devices and loads

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How do you assess the affect of sun shading devices such as brie soliel? I have drawn some external shading ie the fins etc and wish to see the effect before and after applying the fins. I note that at the moment the fins do not seem to do anything to the loads. Am I missing the obvious?

(note i am a novice user of IES. Have moved up from Hevacomp)
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PCully
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Re: solar shdaing devices and loads

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Hi,

To see the effect of shading devices you would need to run Suncast first and tick this link in the settings dialog before the calculation is run.

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