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Galvanic isolation without transformers ??

Started by Unknown November 27, 2014
On a sunny day (Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:26:14 -0800 (PST)) it happened Klaus
Kragelund <klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote in
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>> >> Surely you risk RF burns doing this, besides all the cost and complexity >> >> disadvantages. You might not die from a bad RF burn the way you might >> >> from 50/60 Hz, but you might wish you had. :( >> >> >> > >> >RF burn? >> > >> >Where might that come from? >> > >> >The HF loop is closed. Square wave generator/buffer -> Two plate capacitors -> bridge rectifier -> Load. No HF escapes the >> >loop, >> >only low frequency mains leakage is running across the barrier >> >> Symmetry. > >Care to elaborate how dis-symmetry causes RF burns?
How about you posting a cirucit diagram first of you 80 MHz 'isolation'?
>> Ever worked with 1kW 80 MHz? > >No. I have worked with 8MW at 4.5kHz. Does that have anything to do with this??
Yes, its not high enough. RF goes where no .. has gone before. You are talking audio. I know, I did get RF burns on a regular basis, from less power.