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Solar Advisor's input pages provide access to the input variables and options that define the assumptions of your analysis. When you start a project, whether from a sample template, by creating a new project, or opening an existing project, Solar Advisor populates all of the input variables with default values. This means that you can get started with your analysis even before you have final values for all of the input variables. Refer to the Input Page Reference for detailed descriptions of the input variables on each page.
The text and data box colors on the input pages indicate the kind of information they contain:
Note. The appearance of text and text boxes depends on whether you are running Solar Advisor on Windows or Mac OS. The screenshots below are for Windows.
| • | White data boxes display input variables that you can modify by typing values in the box: |
| • | Blue data boxes are for reference values that Solar Advisor either displays from other input pages, or calculates from other input variables. Data in blue cannot be modified. Press the F1 key on your keyboard (Command-? on a Mac) to see the Help topic with descriptions of the equations Solar Advisor uses to calculate these values: |
| • | Gray data boxes show values for your reference. For example, these input variables on the Climate page show annual averages calculated from data stored in the weather file. You cannot modify data in gray: |
| • | Blue underlined text indicates links to websites with useful information related to the input page: |
| • | Informational text describing the input variables appears in orange font: |
| • | Library buttons populate input variables with values from a library of stored parameters. Modifying a value on an input page does not change the value stored in the library. See Working with Libraries for to learn more about libraries: |
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