Sensors

Sensors are useful to read system parameters when doing simulations.

Figure 1: Sensor base circuit

In this sensor you can view a multitude of different graphs. These are:

Figure 2: List of available sensor graphs

The sensor base circuit also has five control line outputs. You can read out each of these five parameters to use them in your control strategy. The measurements are sampled every 600 seconds by default. This value is adjustable by the user.

The five sensor outputs and their units are:

Sensor abbreviation	Sensor output parameter	Unit

Sensor abbreviation	Sensor output parameter	Unit
T_x	Supply temperature	°C
V	Volume flow rate	m³/h
T_y	Return temperature	°C
dp	Pressure delta	Pa
Q	Heat flow	W

Tip:

If you want to work with different units in your control strategy (e.g. l/s instead of m³/h for volume flow rate), you can easily convert the output signal by multiplying it with a conversion constant (e.g. multiply by 0.2778 to convert from m³/h to l/s).