Is "Shoe Goo" electrically conductive???
 

Anyone know? I have a deans plug adapter (3 male deans and 1 female) that joins my 3 X 2s liPo's (6s) I have soldered the deans plugs directly back to back and was going to bond the assembly by adding shoe goo for some added strength.

Cheers Andrew

Not sure, but you could plop a blob on a piece of scrap and use a meter...

I'm about 99% sure it isn't. Most glue or adhesives aren't.

I've seen guys cover the soldered tabs of a nimh pack with it... so I doubt it could be conductive at all.

Brian, What would an acceptable resistance be? I will try and get a reading at a spacing of 5mm.

I would like to know if shoe good is electricalkly condoctive or not, because I plan to water proof my rustler's and E-Revo's RX's (totally cover the circut boards) :intello:

Shoe goo is silicone, isn't it? silicone is not conductive, at least to electricity. It is decent about resisting heat too.

Just checked the resistance with my multimeter. Set on 20M ohms it didn't even register. I guess Shoe Goo IS NOT electrically conductive.
Thanks for the input guys.

Sweet! Thanks for letting us know! :mdr:

Cool. I kinda figured it would be insulative, but you never know. Ideally, infinite resistance is desired to prevent even slow battery leakage current. So, a too-high reading on the 20M ohm scale is good...

Just coated my E-Revo's servo circutry and it works!:intello: So I guess I'll be doing this for almost all my electronics (wont do it to my escs).:yes:

Just be careful not to cover any heat producing electronics! The PCB in a servo does contain a few transistors/FETs to drive the motor and can get warm depending on the servo power/speed rating...

I'm not to worried about that becuase this isnt the greatest of servos, and I wanted it waterproof for certian reasons.:whistle:

On the other hand, when I do get a pricy servo I wont cover it in shoe goo...I'll just save my current one when I want to go for a swim.:lol:


Brian- Would my recievers be ok if I coverd them in shoe goo, or should I just blast them with WD-40?

Personally, balooning receivers is the best option, and is the easiest option to remove if you need to work on something (like a broken antenna wire). But, show-goo should work fine since there are no heat producing parts in them. Just make sure not to get the goo in the output pins. :wink: