Dielectric grease

[cr0ft]

About to get into some electrical upgrades on the R3T and I figure I want dielectric grease in any Posiloks and such to keep water out (in addition to shrinktubing the whole thing as the final step). This is something I haven't really given a lot of thought before, so I figured I'd fire off a question.

What does actually count as dielectric grease? Ie, what would be optimal for this? I'm probably overthinking as usual. Would plain silicone grease count as dielectric grease?

 

[cr0ft]

After doing some reading and searching on the topic, I wound up ordering some Stabilant 22, instead. I figure that should work to both lubricate the contact and improve connectivity, while simultaneously protecting from corrosion. Lots of people were waxing lyrical about it for fixing intermittent connection issues and the like. Expensive stuff, but fortunately I don't need much.

 

[duropart]

After doing some reading and searching on the topic, I wound up ordering some Stabilant 22, instead. I figure that should work to both lubricate the contact and improve connectivity, while simultaneously protecting from corrosion. Lots of people were waxing lyrical about it for fixing intermittent connection issues and the like. Expensive stuff, but fortunately I don't need much.

Whenever I do any electrical work on my bike or car I always smear some petrolium jelly (Vasaline) on the joint , never have any problems with corrosion or bad joints, brilliant on battery terminals

 

[captain jack]

Whenever I do any electrical work on my bike or car I always smear some petrolium jelly (Vasaline) on the joint , never have any problems with corrosion or bad joints, brilliant on battery terminals

Vaseline works really well, I have that & silicone grease but have also bought dielectric grease, probably all the same but all do a good job.

 

[Jag]

Whenever I do any electrical work on my bike or car I always smear some petrolium jelly (Vasaline) on the joint , never have any problems with corrosion or bad joints, brilliant on battery terminals

Vasaline on your joint to avoid problems. Do you do this often? LOL

 

[duropart]

[QUOTE post 304137, member: 4872"]Vasaline on your joint to avoid problems. Do you do this often? LOL[/QUOTE]

Vasaline on your joint to avoid problems. Do you do this often? LOL

If you get It on yer lips saves on chapping,( Two birds one stone )

 

[Jag]

[QUOTE post 304137, member: 4872"]Vasaline on your joint to avoid problems. Do you do this often? LOL

If you get It on yer lips saves on chapping,( Two birds one stone )[/QUOTE]


I will take your on this. LOL good one! Do you know this from experience!

 

[cr0ft]

Yep, also done the vaseline on the battery poles, but didn't feel right about putting vaseline in actual electrical connectors.

This Stabilant 22 stuff looks pretty great, though, have to check it out. 10-100 times better connectivity in some tests sounds almost snake-oilishly good but worth a shot.