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This paper provides a general view of the condition monitoring and fault detection system applications on wind energyconverters. Firstly, implementation feasibility of condition monitoring systems is shown by analyzing severalapplications of condition-based maintenance on wind energy converters. Afterwards, the most critical failures in windenergy converters are described and current trends in such condition monitoring system applications are analyzed.Finally, a low-cost condition monitoring system implementation, interesting to be applied in developing countries, is proposed.