Chaos and Caffeine Episode 37 Whats Really Happening to Your Bearings and Windings Rant

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A tremendous problem is occurring in the industry that is resulting in bearing and winding failures throughout industry. This has to do with the misapplication and installation of variable frequency…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 29 Bridging the Gap from Theory to Real World Reliability

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In this episode we will have ChatGPT Juniper as our co-host - a fun little experiment and an attempt to go by a script (not very well). We discuss the…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 26 Condition Based Reactive Maintenance

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When monitoring systems detect faults after they occur they are not condition-based nor are they predictive maintenance, they become condition-based reactive maintenance. In this episode we fall back on Deathwish…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 25 EMPOWER Vibration and MCSA with Peppermint Mocha

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A review of the upcoming EMPOWER-VIB vibration analysis system and the EMPOWER-MCSA current signature analysis system available the first week in January, 2026. Includes the new features for time to…

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)…