User talk:Fabrice002
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[edit]I just removed a bunch of material from this page that advocates not following proper grounding principles for electrical equipment and thus could result in injury or death to someone following the advice. Fabrice002, please make your case at Talk:Isolation transformer (you can rescue any arguments you wish to post on that page from your page history). It is not appropriate here. --Guy Macon (talk) 01:32, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]Mr Mason conflates the subject of "isolation transformer" with general "proper grounding principles". He elaborates a set of conditions specific to use of medical equipment protected by a specific ground fault configuration in which a person connected to equipment can receive a microampére shock. In doing so, there are repeated attempts ofpersonal insult by labeling the 'dangerous' conditions he describes using clear reference to my Wikipedia identity.
This Wikipedia entry should present one of the primary historical uses of isolation transformers in electronic test and measurement. The purpose of using properly configured isolation transformers in test and measurement is to prevent adding to the already 400 - 1000 deaths, people killed every year (in the U.S.) by contact with a ground-referenced electrical circuit. In that definition, an "isolation transformer" (with grounded case) must not have ground-referenced outputs to avoids a shock hazard to the test operator.
In his justification for requiring a ground reference, Mr. Mason rejected several supporting reference to the above situation and definition of isolation transformer because in his opinion he did not consider "internet" sources to be authoritative.
While rejecting an attempt to clarify isolation transformer requirements for this purpose, he refers to David Jones' (EEVBlog) as one who in his opinion, is an authority. I agree. That is why reference to a Jones' video was included in the revision I proposed. Jones makes the use case for outputs not referenced to ground, described above. In a second segment he describes the dangers associated with ground-referenced supplies, upon which Mr Mason's rejection of my revision appears to insist.
It is unfortunate that videos are not text-searchable, otherwise he might not have missed the support I reference, by the very source in his opinion is acceptable. I will add Wiki-appropriate links with timing points for each situation described in the video embedded within.
Note: pull Wikipedia-acceptable URLs with exact timing of the two segments in the Jones video.
When I am satisfied of a canonical revision not offensive or insulting to Mr. Mason, I will consider adding this rebuttal to the record at Talk:Isolation transformer.