Brake bulb grease?

[rwh11385]

The check light is coming on for no good reason (i.e. bulbs are functional)

Parts guy gave me some lube / grease / gel one time that he said to coat them. Did so for my 540i but don't have any more / 325is needs it.

What is this electro-conducting lubricating gel that helps make the check panel not go on for faulty sensing?

[E30SPDFRK]

dielectric grease

[Mike]

neosporin/ clear stuff, not the white stuff

[Wh33lhop]

dielectric grease

Dielectric means insulating and dielectric grease is just that.

Just go to your local electronics or hardware store and ask for conductive grease.

[Aptyp]

advance and autozone both have little 99 cents things with electric grease. Same grease for bulbs and sparkplugs.

[nando]

Dielectric means insulating and dielectric grease is just that.

Just go to your local electronics or hardware store and ask for conductive grease.

actually, it doesn't matter. you don't want conductive grease. it could cause shorts. dielctric grease is also used in spark plug wire boots.

I used to use this stuff to keep the pins on my old Pentiums from getting water condensation in them when cooling them to -40c. It doesn't stop the pins from contacting each other, it just keeps air/moisture from contacting the metal.

[Wh33lhop]

actually, it doesn't matter. you don't want conductive grease. it could cause shorts. dielctric grease is also used in spark plug wire boots.

I know what it's used in, he asked for a conductive grease is all.

[nando]

it doesn't need to be conductive like I said. It only fills in the air pockets, there is still going to be metal/metal contact.

[rwh11385]

Yeah, so it doesn't need to be conductive like i thought. Whatev... thanks for the quick reply E30SPDFRK

[DragonOrta]

actually, it doesn't matter. you don't want conductive grease. it could cause shorts. dielctric grease is also used in spark plug wire boots.

I used to use this stuff to keep the pins on my old Pentiums from getting water condensation in them when cooling them to -40c. It doesn't stop the pins from contacting each other, it just keeps air/moisture from contacting the metal.

What did you use? A single stage phase change? Dry ice in a pot?

[nando]

two 75w peltiers (single stage, side by side), water cooling. actually got them down to -50c by running cold tap water direcly through the system (the water in bellingham isn't metered). Except the peltiers required their own power supply and it probably cost as much in power as to buy a faster machine. But of course I wasn't doing it just for the performance. :)

[SpecM]

make sure the contacts in the bulb sockets are making full and clean, well... contact