I didn't have access to any of these exotic compounds so used "vaseline" (petroleum jelly) and that's been OK for 4-ish years in the same application Ben mentioned.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Ben Apollonio <e...@bapollo.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Not only does the aluminum want to oxidize, but you're mating it to copper > straps. If any moisture gets in there, you've just made a galvanic cell > that wants to corrode itself further. When I looked into this for my 914, > I settled on a (slightly hard to find) grease called Penetrox A. There > were some aspersions cast on Noalox, but I'm afraid I can't remember the > details of what they were -- perhaps its applicability to aluminum-copper > junctions vs. just aluminum. In any case, I've had to remove my batteries > once or twice, and the Penetrox A has protected the terminals nicely. > Shiny as the day I first installed them. > > Cheers! > -Ben > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Ben Jarrett wrote: > > > > > > > Hey All, > > > > I've been battling low voltage on my cells and was convinced I had a bad > cell. I ordered 4 cells > > as spares (since the blue CALB 130 Ah cells are being discontinued). > > > > Well, I replaced once cell and in doing so, decided to clean the copper > jumpers at the same time > > (there was a slight bit of blackness on one of the copper jumpers.) > > > > After driving, I found another cell that was dipping to around 2.6V. I > decided to clean the > > copper jumpers using my bench grinders wire wheel. I re-installed and > my drop improved to 2.8V > > under ~300 amp loads. > > > > So now I'm thinking I need to clean all 50 of my jumpers and I'd like to > put something on the joints. > > I've found some old threads on the matter. It seems like a good idea to > put some kind of joint compound > > in there since one of the CALB battery terminals is aluminum and will > want to oxidize. I'm thinking > > of using this stuff: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Noalox > ®-Anti-oxidant-Compound-Oz-Bottle/dp/B0019KHHRE > > > > any thoughts? > > > > thanks! > > > > -ben > > www.evalbum.com/4001 > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130423/3f0d3262/attachment.htm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130424/1d9833f0/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
