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OLPD Report Review
Methodology and consistency review of your PD survey report — never a condition call.
- From $199
- Price shown before you pay
- 50
- Checklist points
- 1 day
- Typical turnaround
What it's for
We check your partial discharge survey report for method, units, and consistency — so you know what the data supports before you act on it. We never rate asset condition.
Who it's for
Built for the people who sign off
The asset owner holding a survey report
Check the method before a report drives a six-figure outage decision.
The reliability or substation engineer
Know whether this year’s survey can be compared to last year’s.
The engineer preparing a second-opinion case
Document where the report’s claims outrun its data, check by check.
What it doesn't do
Clear limits, stated up front
- Assessing the condition of any equipment
- Assigning severity or criticality
- Estimating time to failure or remaining life
- Recommending or discouraging maintenance or outage action
- Ingesting raw instrument data files
- Generating PRPD or trend plots from customer data
A clean report is never proof of compliance.
Turnaround
What to expect
Automated
Typically 1 business day.
Expert-reviewed
Typically 3 business days.
You upload
- OLPD survey report (PDF)required
- Single-line diagram (PDF)required
- Prior OLPD reports for the same assets (optional PDF)optional
What's checked
50 checks across 10 areas
- Measurement method and instrumentation
- Units and calibration basis
- Noise discrimination
- Asset coverage
- Test conditions
- Trending and comparison
- Data presentation
- Standing interrogation set
- PRPD pattern analysis
- PD type statements
Sample finding
PD type asserted without the pattern evidence that would support it
Illustrative and redacted. See full sample reports →
The cost of the first pass
Your engineers should be engineering, not proofreading.
The first pass through a document is the slowest, least interesting part of review. We do that pass and hand back a list with every item tied to a page. Your engineer still makes every call.
Defaults to the $300/hr rate PEFG prices its own expert lane from. Change it to yours.
We don't measure this and won't pretend to — the default is deliberately low. Set it to what it actually takes.
- Your first pass — 2 hours at $300/hr
- $600
- OLPD Report Review — Fleet
- $449
- Difference, per document
- $151
Turnaround: Typically 1 business day.
A preliminary screening, not a substitute for your review. The Engineer of Record verifies every finding, and absence of a finding is never evidence of compliance.
Why it is consistent
Every item, every time
The full checklist runs on every document, even on a deadline.
The same standard every time
Depth does not depend on who was free that afternoon.
An audit trail by default
Every finding carries its page and the checklist item behind it.
It does not get bored
Matching ninety label values to ninety study rows is where people slip.
If this goes wrong
First order, any product: tell us why it missed and we refund it.
Email support within 7 days of release with your order ID and a short note on what it missed. First paid order only, one per customer, refunded in full.
Always refundable, first order or not
- Wrong document type. If what you uploaded is not a document this product reviews, re-upload the right file or take a full refund.
- Non-delivery. If we fail to deliver a report, you get a full refund.
- Before you upload. Paid but not uploaded yet? Email support for a full refund.
- Malware-rejected with no clean resubmission. If your file fails the malware scan and you cannot send a clean copy, take a refund.
Anything else? Email support with your order ID — a person reads every request. support@pefgconsulting.com. Full terms: refund policy.
Need more than a screening? PEFG offers a stamped engineering review by a licensed P.E.(opens in a new tab, external site) as a separate engagement.
FAQ
Common questions
Does this tell me whether my equipment has a problem?
No — and that boundary is enforced, not merely stated. Assessing equipment condition, assigning severity, estimating remaining life, and recommending or discouraging maintenance or outage action are all out of scope, and post-generation validation rejects any finding whose language asserts equipment health or recommends an action. This reviews the report, not the equipment.
Why would I pay to review a report I already paid for?
Because the survey provider and the report author are usually the same party, and the report is the basis for what you do next. An independent read of the methodology tells you whether the conclusion is supported, what was not tested, and which questions to put back to the provider before you act on it.
Do I need to send raw instrument data?
No — and it would not be read. Ingesting raw instrument files and generating PRPD or trend plots from your data are both out of scope. Submit the survey report as issued to you; that is the document under review.
What does the expert lane add?
The expert lane is read personally by Jay R. Prigmore II, Ph.D., P.E. — a Ph.D. electrical power engineer with 400+ forensic investigations of electrical equipment failures behind him. Every finding is approved, edited, or removed by him before release. This product presents the expert lane first at checkout because the reasoning in a PD report is exactly the kind of thing worth a person reading.
Which assets does it cover?
Survey reports for MV switchgear, cable, transformers, motors, generators, and busway. Pricing is by PDF page count, published, and locked before upload.