Hi,
I was running a 40W offline flyback and got electrocuted by touching the drain node of the flyback……..
I am not sure I understand this since………….
1….The mains was supplied via a 50Hz isolation transformer
2….I had rubber souled shoes on.
3….I touched the drain node with a single part of my right finger….no other part of my body was in any contact with any other part of the circuit.
…and no part of my body was in contact with anything else, other than the souls of my rubber shoes, which were in contact with the vinyl floor.
4….The PCB has only Live and Neutral conductors connected to it…..there is no earth connection to the PCB connector.
This flyback is one of two converters which are powered by the input PFC stage….which is on the same PCB.
-So the flyback’s V(in) is 390V.
How could I have been electrocuted?
Current only travels in loops, and there was no loop path available through my body to complete any current loop.
Electric shocks are often via the human body acting as a capacitor to Earth ground……………but I had used an isolation transformer, so there would have been no loop through my body which goes through earth ground.