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@ mleku
2025-03-05 18:09:43
yeah, when i say "turn off" i mean unplug also because ground/earth faults can happen without the device being on, though almost everything these days is always running a power managing circuit
but the main point is that if the device has an earth fault the surge on the active/passive lines to the earth may have a short circuit that just requires sufficient current on the line, if you see what i mean
when my landlady's gopher figured this out after the third time being called in due to a main power safety switch going off he told me to unplug everything and then plug stuff in one by one and as soon as i plugged the washing machine BAM out it went
at first it wasn't every time, usually had to have a high load on the power circuit, but when it finally ded it was just by being plugged in at all