Your wall outlet may not be wired correctly or your line cord is missing the ground prong. With game power off, use your DMM to check continuity to earth ground on the lockdown bar and other metal places.

Put a circuit tester in the wall outlet, to see if it's wired correctly.

They look like this in the states.

Robert

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im no exspert- but i suspect grounding issues- i also think much advice here will be difficult because we (the states) use a 3 grond extra ground system and if i recal all my time in the eu they do alot of 2 prong stuff------

just my advice, and it might be bad- but i would isolate some grounding and see if you can find what the problem is to what metallic coponet, then i think its, shareing thrount the ground making all metal somewhat live, might want to do it with a tester... i would like to see you power point plug.........

enjoy italy- freeken awsome place

i think your on to something with the cut wire- wont do no good to have the machine grounding itself, if it dose not tie the the house grounding system network...... however???

and ill say again, im no exspert and dont pretend to be- however that ground system is a extra safty feature, to help you not to get shocked, i dont think it should be grounding a load all the time-------

i think- somewhere besides the machine grounding not being tied to the home ground you have some sort of a grounding issue, i dont think its hot or you would be poping fuses real shocks ect, but i think current is going thought some object regulating load, then finding its way to the machine grounding system and woundering around.

i happent to live in a house fairly old, (not by italy standards of course) made it 1880, it has 2 prong system, in much of the house, and the 3 prong- i have ran a pin or 2 a time or 2- and have never received un unwarented shock!!!

p.s. dont worry about the "polititicans" and "some people"- there doing 'it" everywhere

If the ground wire is cut off, then you no longer have it's protection.

I think that there is probably a ground fault in the game and with the plug ground wire attached it kept popping the breaker, so...

SOLUTION: cut ground wire.

This is a problem!

Robert

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I assume from Italy that your plug looks similar to the above.

I am in no way qualified to give advice on electrical issues but it does seem you have a ground or earth issue rather than an electrical problem in the machine.

Check for continuity between the green ground wire on the line filter (in your pic) and the earth prong on your plug.
If that checks out Ok I would check the wall outlet for a proper earth path as advised previously.

I can't think of a component failure that would give the symptoms you describe above.

Hot / neutral being reversed can do this as well (i think?)

Never really understood why this would be the case. The line voltage goes through fuse, line filter, on/off switch and the primary side of the transformer. I can't understand how switching line and neutral around could cause the symptoms above.

Perhaps someone could chime in.

Andy

im guess this pure and simple stray voltage- somewhere you have neutral getting to your ground network-

your going to need to isolate each metal peice - and when you get one that cant be made to have no potential it will be the one with the neutral somewhere touching it.

With the game off, but plugged in, check if your incoming blue wire is somehow hot with your meter.

So, meter set on AC:

One probe on blue wire, one on green. Voltage (hopefully 0v)? (if 220v blue is HOT)

One probe on brown, one on green. Voltage (hopefully 220v)? (if 0v, ground is faulty)

One probe on brown, one on blue. Voltage (hopefully 220v)?

Same thing here in the states. And congrats on your fix.

The ground is supposed to be there to give electricity a better path than running through you, should a problem develop.

Even though you are not feeling a shock now, fix the ground!