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In EnergyPlus, I could use an Availability Manager to control the collector circulating pump based on a temperature difference. However, I cannot find Availability Manager capability in Open Studio. Am I overlooking something? If this feature is not yet available, is there a workaround to accomplish the same functionality? I suppose that I could export the IDF file and then edit in IDF Editor to add the feature I want but then I think I would be precluded from doing additional modeling in OS. Any suggestions or citations to references would be appreciated.

In EnergyPlus, I could use an Availability Manager to control the collector circulating pump based on a temperature difference. However, I cannot find Availability Manager capability in Open Studio. Am I overlooking something? If this feature is not yet available, is there a workaround to accomplish the same functionality? I suppose that I could export the IDF file and then edit in IDF Editor to add the feature I want but then I think I would be precluded from doing additional modeling in OS. Any suggestions or citations to references would be appreciated.

In EnergyPlus, I could use an Availability Manager to control the collector circulating pump based on a temperature difference. However, I cannot find Availability Manager capability in Open Studio. Am I overlooking something? If this feature is not yet available, is there a workaround to accomplish the same functionality? I suppose that I could export the IDF file and then edit in IDF Editor to add the feature I want but then I think I would be precluded from doing additional modeling in OS. Any suggestions or citations to references would be appreciated.