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How does an isolation transformer prevent electric shock?

April 26, 2017electric Engineering isolation Mathematics shock transformer

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How does an isolation transformer prevent electric shock?

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It will prevent a large current from flowing if you ground one side of the secondary. There could still be enough current through capacitance between windings of the transformer and capacitance of you to ground to cause enough current to flow to kill you (about 10 ma).