Is it correct to say that the primary reason to have galvanic isolation (ensuring minimum clearance and creepage distance for required voltage of power circuit between HV and LV) between the HV power circuit and low voltage control circuit is to eliminate the possibility of creepage current or static discharge between the two?
Electronic – the purpose of galvanic isolation
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Best Answer
- galvanic isolation means
it does not mean;
static conduction is eliminated
eliminates the risk of data errors from noise,
even 1m USB so-called balanced differential lines, get corrupt connections with a galvanically isolated supply connected to an earth bonded tower PC. This occurs often when long peripheral cables are connected to the mobile SMPS powered device acting as an antenna for ingress and egress and poor CMRR on a std short USB2 cable.
This reduces air from 1k~3kV /mm down to 500 typ to ?100V/mm in extreme cases which has an industry standard contamination environment level. You can make it down to 10V/mm if there is salt spray if I recall.