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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1545157" data-attributes="member: 284358">Hey John,Yea man I never had an issue either until I moved. In the states it never had the issue (110volts a/c 60Htz. But here in the Philippines were power it different (230volts a/c 50Htz) its a real annoyance. Now there is so many variables that could be causing this here. Two that I think would be the dirty electricity here or internal PSU inverter not isolated enough internally. Or little of both.. Tell ya what, when you look at the power and phone lines outside. Its truly amazing anything works at all here.. Some of the power lines look like a ball of string someone left in the laundry.. LOLBut yea I really wished they would go back to 3 prong plugs on the MMs. The systems should not be doing what they are doing, but they are. It was even feeding over onto my external hard drive that has a aluminum enclosure. Right now I have the ground wire just stuck between the bottom cover and the chassis just enough to ground the cover and not were it would touch any of the internals, that would be bad. Just dropped the wire down to the one on the foot long extension grounding cord I made. It effectively neutralizes the voltage from 8-15v to 0v as it should.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1545157, member: 284358"] Hey John, Yea man I never had an issue either until I moved. In the states it never had the issue (110volts a/c 60Htz. But here in the Philippines were power it different (230volts a/c 50Htz) its a real annoyance. Now there is so many variables that could be causing this here. Two that I think would be the dirty electricity here or internal PSU inverter not isolated enough internally. Or little of both.. Tell ya what, when you look at the power and phone lines outside. Its truly amazing anything works at all here.. Some of the power lines look like a ball of string someone left in the laundry.. LOL But yea I really wished they would go back to 3 prong plugs on the MMs. The systems should not be doing what they are doing, but they are. It was even feeding over onto my external hard drive that has a aluminum enclosure. Right now I have the ground wire just stuck between the bottom cover and the chassis just enough to ground the cover and not were it would touch any of the internals, that would be bad. Just dropped the wire down to the one on the foot long extension grounding cord I made. It effectively neutralizes the voltage from 8-15v to 0v as it should. [/QUOTE]

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