Weather issues between SAM 20.2.29 release 3 and release

Hi Paul

EPW weather files and my own SAM sb-hourly CSV files that were working with release 2 are no longer valid when working with release 3. I have re-installed release 2 and I am back working fine, and the issues below disappear.
 
Issue1)
Using release 3, with my ownSAM CSV sub-hourly weather files, execution fails with: “Weather file hour range was not (0-23) or (1-24)”. Hourly files work fine. I have attached my sub-hourly file.
 
Issue2)
Using hourly EPW files from climate.onebuilding.org/ causes the following issue
 
exec fail(pvsamv1): Error calculating shadingfactor for subarray 0 at index 0
Simulation pvsamv1 failed :execfail(pvsamv1): Error calculating shading factor for subarray 0 at index 0
 
If I convert them to SAM CSV files, then they work fine. The weather file checker macro states the EPW file is fine. EPW file attached.
 
Note: Another user has raised this issue here: sam.nrel.gov/forum/forum-general/3095-exec-fail-pvsamv1-error-calculating-shading-factor-for-subarray-0-at-index-0.html#8531
 
Thanks very much.
 
Mark

Hi Paul,

Thanks for looking at this matter.

The Github post states:  "a pvsamv1 error when usingsubhourly EPW weather files". Just so there is no confusion, the EPW issue was with hourlyfiles, I have not checked sub-hourly.

The other issue I raised was with SAM CSV sub-hourly weather files, causing the error: “Weather file hour range was not (0-23) or (1-24)”. SAM CSV hourly files worked  fine.
 
Neither error occurs with release 2, only release 3.
 
Regards Mark