Conductive electrical grease?

[kab69440]

Well then, it sounds as if Nevr-Seez is your closest-to-ideal solution! Sweet! I think I might give it a shot myself!

[JohnnieB]

Originally Posted by kab69440

How would you get it to stay in place? I mean the theory is sound, but the stuff doesn't obey well, you know? I'm not sure the small gain in conductivity would be worth the effort. You'd probably be just as well off to clean both connections nice and shiny and sweat a small amount of silver solder over them.

It gets trapped in the voids, what doesn't get trapped rolls away.

As for gains in conductivity, take a look at the contact surfaces, even the nice and shiny ones, under about 20x or 30x. It is all hills and valley and only the tops of the hills touch.
There is room for improvement, but how much gain is to be had, I don't know.
I'm an efficiency nut (IE: 2ga silver soldered cables on a stock PDS cart) and if I can further improve the efficiency of my battery pack without going to great expense or effort, I might try it.

Even if you could sweat silver solder over lead, how do you take it apart afterwards?

Added - you posted again while I was typing.

Yeah the copper filled Never-Seize stuff might do the trick, and a lot less expensive than the stuff used on transmission line connections.

[kab69440]

Originally Posted by JohnnieB

Even if you could sweat silver solder over lead, how do you take it apart afterwards?

That's the thing, isn't it? I guess in my perfect little world, once you have installed the stuff, it should just stay together until the batteries die. Of course, by then, you'd need new cables anyhow. You know what? I'll just stick with dielectric grease and that waxy terminal protectant. I don't care much about perfect, just better than it was.

[simple man]

I wonder if just soldering over the ring on the terminal end would help any? Then you would have soft lead to compress and fill in the voids! I realize that lead isn't the greatest conductor, but how much gain would you really get from this? Good thread! It's making my feeble brain actually trying to engage!
@ yurtle, I've got some mercury in a bottle too. Maybe if the EPA wasn't so paranoid, more of us would have it in a bottle and it wouldn't be getting into the environment!

[JohnnieB]

Gold leaf would work better.
And from the prices I've been seeing for some of the high end conductive stuff, it might be cheaper also.

I doubt if it would make much difference in performance or run-time, but to my way of thinking:
Since I've got to put something on the battery terminals and cable lugs to keep them from corroding, why not use something that improves conductivity also?

I'm probably just tilting at another windmill.

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[sonicj]

NO-OX-ID A-Special <== best s**t evarrr!
-sj

[yurtle]

Where have you been? I haven't seen a post from you for a while. I thought you got p!ssed and left.

[JohnnieB]

Originally Posted by sonicj

NO-OX-ID A-Special <== best s**t evarrr!
-sj

Long time no see.

Does it mix well with White Lightening?

Kidding aside, is it conductive?
I can't determine if it is or isn't from what I've read.

Thanks,
John

Added: Answered PM.

[sonicj]

Originally Posted by yurtle

Where have you been? I haven't seen a post from you for a while. I thought you got p!ssed and left.

i believe i got sent to timeout.

Originally Posted by JohnnieB

Long time no see.

Does it mix well with White Lightening?

Kidding aside, is it conductive?
I can't determine if it is or isn't from what I've read.

Thanks,
John

Added: Answered PM.

white lightning? like the bicycle lube? no idea... i use clean ride on my chain though and it rawks.

according to the manufacturer, the A-Special blend is conductive.
-sj