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Hey /sci/, I'm having some trouble understanding electric shock and how isolation transformers protect you from it. Can someone please explain. Here's what I do understand so far
In an undergrounded system, lets say connected to a metal toaster, if there's a faulty hot wire that connects to the metal frame, the will become charged and part of the system. So if you touch it, your body will become part of the circuit and the current will run through you causing an electric shock.
If the there's a ground wire attached to the metal frame and the hot wire has a defect connecting it to the metal frame, the electricity will run through it, to the neutral part of the system and trip the breaker turning off the power.
So I'm confused why an isolation transformer protects against shock. It's not connected to the ground. If a faulty wire touches a metal piece of equipment and I touch the equipment, wouldn't I get a shock just like in an undergrounded system?
Please help.
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mech eng master race
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enginerring is not a science art history master race (dont say master race its racist(
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Basically, with the case of the isolation transformer, it isn't connected to earth so you don't form a complete circuit when you touch it
Here's a better explanation than I could ever provide http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/17496/how-is-using-a-transformer-for-isolation-safer-than-directly-connecting-to-the-p?noredirect=1&lq=1
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>>8703140
as a civil engineer I can say with confidence that you would have to be autistic to install utilities to these three homes in this way.
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>> As it is usually presented (on a flat two-dimensional plane), the solution to the utility puzzle is "no" -- meaning, there is no way to make all nine connections without any of the lines crossing each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_utilities_problem
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None of these lines cross. Think outside the paper and into a box. Also, provide all utitlies, please, that's just gross.
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What do i win
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>>8706769
>No electricity to left
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>>8706769
I wish I was in that second house, double the electricity :p
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>>8703120
Everyone in this thread is being ironic right?
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>>8706658
Kek
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