BinMaker® PRO 3.0  includes access to TMY2 for 239 U.S. locations and TMY3 for 1020 U.S. locations.  The user can summarize a years-worth of hourly weather observations into a smaller data set. These summary data sets can then be opened in a spreadsheet program and used for energy calculations. The user can:

• Choose from 239 U.S. locations from TMY2 datasets. The extensive TMY2 database allows you to understand typical weather behavior for all 50 United States, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.

• Choose from 1020 U.S. locations from TMY3 datasets. The extensive TMY3 database allows you to understand typical weather behavior for all 50 United States, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.

• Select specific operating hours.  Instead of summarizing all 8760 hours of the year, you can define a specific operating schedule, with different hours for each day of the week, or excluding certain months , days or hours.

• Create BIN summaries by dry bulb temperature or... by wet bulb, humidity ratio or wind speed. Dry bulb summaries remain useful in some situations, but BinMaker® PRO also creates accurate summaries by humidity ratio, wind speed or wet bulb as well. Mean coincident values (including enthalpy) can also be calculated on demand.

• Calculate annual cooling and heating  loads for ventilation air (VLI’s) . BinMaker® PRO automatically calculates the ventilation moisture and temperature loads for the hours and inside control conditions you have selected. Loads are expressed in Btu’s per scfm per month, as well as the annual total.  

• Create joint frequency tables (hours occurring at each combination of temperature and moisture). Joint frequency summaries do not average either temperature or moisture so they avoid the underestimation of loads inherent in BIN summaries.

• Extract any combination of specific observations from TMY2 records. If you needed only the temperature, diffuse solar radiation and rainfall for Thursdays in March in San Antonio, BinMaker® PRO allows you to isolate and extract those values for use in other programs.

• Look up peak design values for sizing HVAC equipment.  In 1997,  ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) expanded, corrected and recalculated HVAC equipment design values for 1459 worldwide locations for the widely respected Handbook of Fundamentals. BinMaker® PRO takes that entire data set, and displays it electronically through a unique interactive data viewer.

• Work in either I-P or SI units.  BinMaker® PRO gives you the choice of working in the units you find most useful either the Inch-Pound system or the SI system of international units (metric).