PAN to SAM macro automation

Hi everyone! 

I am curious if anyone has tried to write a python script to batch process a large volume of PVSyst PAN files using the PAN to SAM macro. We are currently trying to process our 3rd-party file database for internal use.

Can this macro be called from the command line? Any experience anyone can share in this regard would be greatly appreciated!

All the best, -AB

Hi AB,

The best approach for this might be to translate the "PVsyst OND - PAN to SAM.lk" script from LK into Python. LK is a C-like scripting language, so someone familar with both C/C++ and Python should be able to do a translation.

To see the macro's LK script in SAM, click View code on the Macro page. You could also modify the LK script to do a batch conversion.

See the "Macros and Scripting" Help topic for more about LK and macros, and for steps for running a macro from the command line: samrepo.nrelcloud.org/help/macros.htm

There are a couple of SAM-related Python scripts in the SAM GitHub repository ( github.com/NREL/SAM/tree/patch/samples/Python%20Scripts ). If anyone does write a Python script for this and wants to share it, we would be happy to post it there.

Best regards,
Paul.

p.s. There are separate Python samples for PySAM here: github.com/NREL/pysam/tree/main/Examples .
 

Hi Paul, thank you for the reply and the provided references. We'll delve deeper into this! Best wishes! -AB