The continuous rises of number of power grid equipment and complicacy of large power grids'structures result in frequent anomaly of secondary circuits'voltage and current and consequent external-fault-induced undesired activation of protections.Traditional manual analysis of external faults is inefficient and difficult to ensure accuracy.To address this is-sue,this article analyzes an undesired activation of external-fault-induced protection encountered by an actual 220 kV main transformer,studies the monitoring method for secondary circuit hidden danger,and develops an intelligent analysis sys-tem.The system can identify anomalies in secondary circuits of protection devices through anomaly detection method,help to timely discover hidden dangers of relay protection,and effectively improve correctness rate of protection action.