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Old 16th Jan 2020, 3:39 pm   #35
julie_m
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Default Re: Isolating transformer.

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Originally Posted by crackle View Post
I have had shocks, not too serious ones, when I have been standing in rubber soled shoes on a wooden or carpeted floor.
But the return path is not through the soles of your feet -- it's capacitive, with one plate being the whole surface area of your skin. This is part of the reason why small children are better at surviving mains shocks than adults!
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