Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 21 Its the Economy Stupid and the Trades in 2026

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We try the Starbucks Eggnog Latte then discuss the impacts and conditions surrounding 2025, including AI, policy decisions, and the impacts of all of them on small to medium businesses.…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 16 7 11 Cappuccino and Standards Meetings and Overview for Electric Machines

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Trying out 7/11 Cappuccino and then a discussion of the upcoming IEEE P1415 project on root cause failure analysis and condition based maintenance of electric machines, standards meetings from this…

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 80 Electrical Machinery Forensics An Intro

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The course we gave at the 2025 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference. The course starts with an overview of the RCFA process emphasizing the simple 5-why and complex analysis using PROACT.…