Understanding Snubber Circuits: Benefits & Differences

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may i know what is snubber circuit??
and what is the different between having snubber circuit vs without subbers circuit..
 
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In the USA, a snubber circuit most often serves to consume undesired energies that might damage circuits or cause undesired noise. In Japan, power supply bypass capacitors are sometimes referred to as snubbers. I suspect this originated with an error when transcribing a piece of equipment, and propagated from there.

A simple and common snubber is a resistor in series with a capacitor, a so called RC snubber. A common application is to reduce transient voltages and ringing in transformer coupled switching power supplies.