Safety Gaps

Safety Gaps
A Safety gap's purpose is to prevent any large voltage spikes from damaging the power supply (usually a transformer).
The electrodes of the safety gap are set at a distance just slightly greater than the output of the transformer will spark over.
With a centre tapped transformer, as either leg of the transformer could over voltage three electrodes are used as below.

Safety Gap

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