Hi Everybody,
I’ve just posted a new version (notes on the couple of small changes below). To upgrade, use www.wxsim.com/wxsimupg.exe (NOT wxsimdem.exe). I’m also thinking about changes to the (rather dated) web site. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tom
Here’s some of what’s new:
Data types were added in the cty.fdt file to enable more versatility with wind speed
forecasts for wind turbines (typically between 40 and 80 meters above the surface).
The wind behavior can now be made even more site-specific than before (allowing for
a range of surface roughness and inversion-proneness) and also can now supply winds
at two heights (one half that of the other, customized one). Note that this feature
is available only if it was included in the customization.
wret.exe can now handle a change in file names in CumulusMX, where (at elast under
Spanish settings) a period now appears after the month abbreviation. WXSIMATE and
WXSIM-Lite also had changes allowing for this. In each case the name change is
auto-detected, so no user action is required.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Occasionally users may encounter Permission Denied (VB error number
70) errors, which shut down the program. I declined to attempt anticipating all such
errors in my error trapping code, out of concern about interfering with other error
trapping routines. The cause is usually very simple: a WXSIM file is being used by
another process, which CAN be another program in the suite (i.e. WXSIMATE), if that
programs gets stalled somehow or is scheduled to run overlapping with WXSIM. Another
cause of the problem could be if the user has opened a file such as latest.csv or
latestturbine.csv for viewing in Excel, and left that open. Being alert to these
possibilities will likely prevent the error from ever appearing, or at least make it
fairly easy to fix if it ever does.