Isolation / data transformers are used for isolation and voltage scaling in data line and power supply applications. Isolation transformers typically serve three main purposes:
Isolation transformers may be also be described as power-supply transformers, signal transformers, data-line transformers, communications transformers, interface transformers, data-interface transformers, industrial-communications transformers, and miniature transformers. This article discusses isolation / data transformers and the wide range of applications in which Coilcraft off-the-shelf isolation / data transformers can be used.
Isolation transformers are very versatile and well suited for many commercial and industrial power supply and data communications applications, including:
A high noise immunity serial communications standard such as RS-485 is best used in industrial environments. Unlike Ethernet, which has no built-in method of packet collision avoidance, the master / slave topology of RS-485 leads to more reliable behavior by avoiding data packet collisions and maintaining data integrity, which is crucial in noisy industrial environments.
Coilcraft has a variety of off-the-shelf isolation transformers with:
Coilcraft has developed a large selection of isolation transformers for the applications discussed above and in the many IC reference documents listed in the section below.
Find your Coilcraft isolation transformer to match it with the IC for your application.
Maxim Integrated
Texas Instruments
Analog Devices
