Writing

Articles and blog posts outside of peer-reviewed venues.

Transformer Diagnostics (Reinhausen Blog)

Written during my time at Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen.

The Ultimate Guide to DGA Interpretation

What to watch for in DGA: absolute values, trends, environmental influences, and how they interact.

The Duval Triangle Explained in 3 Minutes

A tutorial aimed at being more accessible than most available explanations. Currently ranks #1 on Google for "Duval triangle".

FAQ: Duval

Common questions about the Duval triangle and pentagon methods.

7 Things That DGA Interpretation Methods Could Do Better

A critique of current standard methods: excessive false alarms, conflation of fault detection and classification, lack of confidence information, and other systematic weaknesses.

The Two Ways to Calculate DGA Trends: Offline vs Online DGA

How to evaluate trends in dissolved gas data in a statistically sound way.

Why Measuring Only Three Gases Is Enough and Saves You Money

More gases are always better, but here is the case for why H₂, CO, and H₂O already cover a wide range of fault signatures.

Make Magazin

Audioreactive Festival Totem (with Thomas Schmid)

How to build a distinctive DIY waypoint sign for your festival crew. Make Magazin 4/2023.