Hi CharlesY,
I have always been told to use Vaseline on car battery terminals, and have used it on eathing points also as it's a conductive grease. Of course Coppaslip has copper in it, but is the grease conductive?
Presumably there's fancy purpose made grease to put on these, but what is the right stuff?
And of course I'm now waiting for all the Vaseline jokes...
There is a conducting grease available but the only time I ever had any was when I could swipe some from the leccy board guys. Vaseline does the job fine, but is no better than any other grease. Copper grease seems to work for me, and is better than the others because it handles corrosion problems better.
As to Vaseline being electrically conductive .... NOT.
I just tested some Vaseline this minute.
With a gap of under half a millimeter between the probes and my meter set on the 20 meg-ohms scale, the meter still could not make any reading and called it open circuit. Vaseline seems to be a strong di-electric.
Copper grease is definitely better that that.
CharlesY
