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Issues Creating Measures - Plug Load Density Example

Hey everyone - first post; read a lot of posts over the years, thanks to everyone who contributes. I'm getting started a little late with OpenStudio and hoping someone can help me iron out some issues I'm having with measure creation using a simple example. I do not have much experience with Ruby or Python, apologies in advance.

I'm looking to create a measure that modifies the Electric Equipment object to set a W/m^2 density. I started with the "Set Lighting Loads by LPD" from the BCL, and did a quick copy/paste of the directory and renamed as "Set Plug Loads by Density". I've tried a couple of modifications (i.e., removing reference to luminaire objects which aren't applicable to plug loads) without success. My thought is that all I should need to do is replace the "LightsDefinition" reference to "ElectricEquipmentDefinition", but I get a failure during 'Processing OpenStudio Measures".

Can anyone shed light on this measure/clarify if I'm not understanding the OS objects correctly?

I'm also seeing two indicators in the Measures screen that I'm hoping someone can also clarify (I don't see in documentation on this site or OS documentation): a red triangle with exclamation point when a measure is dragged into the project, and what looks like a piece of paper broken in the measures library (I assume this means the file is not formatted correctly/missing components).

Issues Creating Measures - Plug Load Density Example

Hey everyone - first post; read a lot of posts over the years, thanks to everyone who contributes. I'm getting started a little late with OpenStudio and hoping someone can help me iron out some issues I'm having with measure creation using a simple example. I do not have much experience with Ruby or Python, apologies in advance.

I'm looking to create a measure that modifies the Electric Equipment object to set a W/m^2 density. I started with the "Set Lighting Loads by LPD" from the BCL, and did a quick copy/paste of the directory and renamed as "Set Plug Loads by Density". I've tried a couple of modifications (i.e., removing reference to luminaire objects which aren't applicable to plug loads) without success. My thought is that all I should need to do is replace the "LightsDefinition" reference to "ElectricEquipmentDefinition", but I get a failure during 'Processing OpenStudio Measures".

Can anyone shed light on this measure/clarify if I'm not understanding the OS objects correctly?

I'm also seeing two indicators in the Measures screen that I'm hoping someone can also clarify (I don't see in documentation on this site or OS documentation): a red triangle with exclamation point when a measure is dragged into the project, and what looks like a piece of paper broken in the measures library (I assume this means the file is not formatted correctly/missing components).