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".
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.