[Boatanchors] [T-368_BC-610] FS: KW Isolation Transformer

Bry Carling AF4K bcarling at cfl.rr.com
Sat Oct 17 06:57:59 EDT 2015


There is a fairly good explanation here in layman's terms:

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/17496/how-is-using-a-transformer-for-isolati
on-safer-than-directly-connecting-to-the-p



On 16 Oct 2015 at 19:35, Rob Atkinson wrote:

> I sure appreciate everyone trying to explain this stuff to me but I
> just don't learn like most folks do and I am going to have to get a
> friend on the land line who is an E.E. and talk to him and argue with
> him and so on because that's how I learn, that and breaking stuff.  If
> I sit and read a book then an hour later I won't remember any of it.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Michael Bittner <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
> > The thing you are missing is that there is capacitance between the windings
> > of a transformer and between the windings and its case.  AC is impeded but
> > not stopped by a capacitor.  Mike, W6MAB
> > -
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