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Plug in RCD 230V or 110V transformer

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I'm curious to see what peoples opinions are on the two different options available for safer power tool use either using 110V tools with a site transformer alone or 230V tools however using these with the plug in RCD. 


I'm aware of the center tapped site transformer splitting the voltage into 55V so there is the arguement that it's only 55V pushing through your body, vs the RCD option, you're exposed to the potentially full 230V but the RCD cuts the supply almost instantly. However this is based on the RCD actually working and detecting a fault and even if it does perhaps even that brief exposure to 230V may be enough for some people to be fatal. Then again 55V maybe enough for some people too to be fatal. 


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    Rather depends how it is implemented. Fine if you have 110v generation on the ground in the clean and dry and then the required 110v distribution, less so if the 230V trails most of the way to the destination anyway and then a rather beat-up hand carry transformer sits in a puddle of dirty water just beside the 110V cement mixer or whatever.

    The one I really did not like was looking up up to see a chap using a kango type thing to demolish an overhead archway, but the transformer balanced on the broken brick quite near the edge and poised to drop about 10 feet to the floor as he moved along if he pulled the cable tight.

    Luckily he spotted it  in time, but even so, that sort of job might have been better on 230V.

    Mike.
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    Rather depends how it is implemented. Fine if you have 110v generation on the ground in the clean and dry and then the required 110v distribution, less so if the 230V trails most of the way to the destination anyway and then a rather beat-up hand carry transformer sits in a puddle of dirty water just beside the 110V cement mixer or whatever.

    The one I really did not like was looking up up to see a chap using a kango type thing to demolish an overhead archway, but the transformer balanced on the broken brick quite near the edge and poised to drop about 10 feet to the floor as he moved along if he pulled the cable tight.

    Luckily he spotted it  in time, but even so, that sort of job might have been better on 230V.

    Mike.
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