Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 15 Pumpkin Spice Condition Based Maintenance

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We try and compare Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice latte (shudder) and then discuss what's going on with modern condition-based maintenance with a combination of AI-generated jokes and a…

CIGRE Croatia Paper Practical Application of Electrical and Current Signature Analysis in DFIG Turbine Systems Oct 14 2025

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Abstract—On and off-shore wind generators and powertrain systems have significant reliability concerns that increase the operations and maintenance costs associated with ownership and affect individual tower availability. The primary failure…

Chaos and Caffeine 2 Aerial Resupply Coffee and the Iberian Peninsula Blackout RCFA

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In this episode we cover Aerial Supply Coffee (https://aerialsupplycoffee.com) M.O.A.B. ARC is a veteran owned coffee company based out of Virginia. We then discuss the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)…

MotorDoc VLOG 81 Practical Electrical and Current Signature Analysis for Electric Machines and Plagiarism

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The presentation that was given at this year's EPRI CBMUG - and discussion of an unfortunate, but quickly becoming common, concern. In this presentation we will discuss the history of…

MotorDoc Vlog 76 Evaluation of Wind Turbine Electrical and Mechanical Defects Due to Nacelle Circulating Currents

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Based on Dr. Penrose's IEEE EIC paper 'Evaluation of Wind Turbine Electrical and Mechanical Defects Due to Nacelle Circulating Currents,' as the practice session for the presentation. Introduction to how…