drew.cates

Solarguru, Thanks for the response. That was very simple. I guess I just never actually tried to run the simulation again after switching to recalculate with the new files. It showed the previous site/met used for the variant, and when i clicked "run simulation" it said it had already been computed, which deterred me from proceeding. The seems silly in hind-sight. thanks.

Is there a way to copy a project, keeping the variants, then changing the meteo and site files and have them apply to the existing variants? Whenever I create a new project, all existing variants are based on the previous site/meteo files and I can't determine how to change them to the new site/meteo files. I feel like this should be a reasonable idea since testing different weather files is common, and you don't want to rebuild a system (and near-shadings model) from scratch each time. Any advise is much appreciated! Drew

Hello, We're developing a ground-mounted project for a university and it will be around 90' from the side of a baseball/softball field. The school is putting up safety netting to prevent balls from hitting the array, but we want to try to account for shading losses resulting from this netting. Looking for any recommendations on this approach in general, but specifically I was hoping to use the thin object tool to try and approximate our situation. Essentially created a wall near the array and applied the thin object ratio based on the expected amount of string/netting area per solar cell, etc. and used for 'fraction for electrical effect'. It seems this tool was created with overhead lines in mind or otherwise shade coming from above so I'm not sure if this is an appropriate exercise. Any recommendations are much appreciated. Drew