Hey there,

So just repaired a bottle cooler, all well, running nicely, go for lunch, come back, tripped. Inspect, nothing to see, reset breaker and immediately pings and fuse blows. Bit odd, so did continuity on compressor, shorted to earth.

Purely for arguments sake, removed protective earth, unit runs absolutely fine, apart from the casing is live. Chills right down, all fans on, everything as you would expect, but with a live earth.

Obviously that was just for elimination purposes, however somehow, compressor is fully functional but shorted to earth. Anyone seen this?!