From the brief bit of research I did online, here is what I found out about
dielectric grease: It is used as you guessed at the end of your post- the
goal is for the electricity to be only flowing at the contact points, and
not jumping or arcing anywhere else. The site I found mentioned it will
prevent sparking and resultant oxidation and corrosion. I'm glad you brought
this up, because I had thought it was conductive as well.

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: The nature of dielectric grease; was Re: Charging better

> I suppose I could be misinterpreting what folks are saying about their use
> of the stuff... I also suppose that if you coated a contact with it you
> could still get conductivity where the grease was pushed aside and you had
> metal-to-metal contact, but that seems iffy.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> Cya
> Robert