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Hello to all, I stumbled upon a strange problem this morning. I wanted to change the light bulb socket in my bathroom, when I noticed that when the ground and phase wires come in contact,the fuse-box trips even though the light switch is turned off. So I took a pen voltage tester and tested all three wires. When the switch is off, the pen doesn't light up on any of the wires. When the switch is turned on, the pen lights up only on the red phase wire. Everything looks normal at this point so what could be causing this?
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