In order to maintain continuous production and to avoid the maintenance cost increment in power plants, it is important to monitor the condition of equipment, especially the generator. Regarding the impossibility of direct access to rotating diodes in brushless synchronous generators, the condition monitoring of these elements is very important. Here, a novel fault detection method is proposed for the diode rectifier of brushless synchronous generator. At the first stage of this method, the vibration signals are recorded and feature extraction is performed by calculating the relative energy of discrete wavelet transform components. Multiclass support vector machine (MSVM) is used for classification, and the best mother wavelet and number of...