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It's due to non-isolated converters where an EMI filter is a part of the line side using X/Y capacitors to cross over. The device isn't solidly grounded but it's also not totally floating either. There's some leakage across it.



Thank you. This seems like the only reasonable explanation I've come across after a ton of reading around.




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