Abstract:The health of metal oxide surge arresters (MOA) has a huge impact on the lines and equipment in substations. The fault diagnosis of MOA online monitoring data can effectively reduce the load loss caused by the accident. The wavelet packet based on Penalized soft threshold is used to filter the MOA online data of a substation, and the signals are classified by support vector machines. It can diagnose the time point of failure before the MOA completely fails, which can provide a basis for the planned power outages.