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Default Isolation transformer source

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GregS wrote:
They really need to start calling these things different names. A
regular "isolation transformer", and they should not be calling it that,
is NOT ground isolated since the secondary is tied to ground. The
purpose of this transformer is noise reduction, period, using an
isolation transformer.


In the UK the secondary of a (safety) isolating transformer is *not* tied
to ground - that would entirely defeat the purpose.

So someone needs to invent a new name for your type. ;-)

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