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  • woodster
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2011
    • 430

    #1

    Corrosion X HD?

    Is this stuff ok to spray inside the motor and ESC after use? Just want to double check.. Thanks

  • JimClark
    Fast Electric Addict!
    • Apr 2007
    • 5907

    #2
    just the regular corrosion x is what I use this stuff may be too thick
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    • Cooper
      Fast Electric Addict!
      • Jan 2011
      • 1141

      #3
      I would like to see what others say also, spraying the motor I don't think you will have any problems. I sprayed some in my boat over the weekend. I gave very light coat on the cap end of my hydra ice240 speedo and ran it for two passes, brought it back in for testing and while walking back -bam-!!! It was like a 22 going off! Thought a battery popped. Opened up and speedo was in pieces. Only thing I can see that happened was the corossion x got inside to the caps or fets. When I was carrying it on its side the x must have shorted the speedo somehow. Does say electrical terminal cleaner. So I'm assusiming it's highly conductive? And it wasn't the set up. So I'm gonna say motor ok but not delicate electronics. And I am curious what others think also.

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      • martin
        Fast Electric Addict!
        • Aug 2010
        • 2887

        #4
        Corrosion X must be one of the most popular things used on esc on this forum without problems.

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        • Fluid
          Fast and Furious
          • Apr 2007
          • 8012

          #5
          I have sprayed every Castle controller and receiver I've owned in the past three years with regular CorrosionX, zero problems; ditto many club members. I would assume that the caps blowing above had nothing to do with the CorrosionX and everything to do with the previous run. A hot controller and swollen caps still connected to power = bang.




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          • properchopper
            • Apr 2007
            • 6968

            #6
            Corrosian-X is highly non-conductive, and Corrosion-X HD is also, 'tho HD is slightly less dialectric. Have had many discussions with them; they've sponsored some D19 races.

            HD is thicker and more "gummy" so I'd use the standard Red can X for inside motors.
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            • Steven Vaccaro
              Administrator
              • Apr 2007
              • 8720

              #7
              Originally posted by properchopper

              HD is thicker and more "gummy" so I'd use the standard Red can X for inside motors.
              Agree with that, I would keep it away for parts that you want to move freely.
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              • woodster
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2011
                • 430

                #8
                Thanks guys for the help

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                • JimClark
                  Fast Electric Addict!
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 5907

                  #9
                  Jay how often have you re-coated them?

                  Originally posted by Fluid
                  I have sprayed every Castle controller and receiver I've owned in the past three years with regular CorrosionX, zero problems; ditto many club members. I would assume that the caps blowing above had nothing to do with the CorrosionX and everything to do with the previous run. A hot controller and swollen caps still connected to power = bang.




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                  • Cooper
                    Fast Electric Addict!
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 1141

                    #10
                    Originally posted by JimClark
                    Jay how often have you re-coated them?
                    I just assumed it was something to do with the corossion x. The las run I had was the day before, so everything was cold, but if you are saying the damage was done then I understand. When you say you have coated every castle controller do you mean that you have just coated them or that you have actually got the stuff inside to contact the boards? I'm not being a smart&$$, I m just trying to learn what happened and not be ruling something that wasn't the problem. And when I say it blew up it literally went into several pieces. And it happened about one minuent after the last throttle blip. So just to be clear, if the controller was almost drenched in corossion x it would not cause it to short and blow up? And sorry for the hijacking of this thread. It was just my assumption because that was the first time I used it and bam!! Controller goes, just a coincidence !???

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                    • Cooper
                      Fast Electric Addict!
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 1141

                      #11
                      Originally posted by JimClark
                      Jay how often have you re-coated them?
                      . Oops sorry if I made it sound if the caps were hot, they were not and were not swollen, and I also have another four caps that were
                      Normal, after looking at the leftover I could see the two internal caps and two external caps were not blown into pieces or tops blown off

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                      • woodster
                        Senior Member
                        • Feb 2011
                        • 430

                        #12
                        Hey guys just an update, I had one of my boats flip over yesterday while running. It sat upside down for at least 10 mins before I could get it out of the water and everything was completely submerged. I got it home, blew everything out well with compressed air and used the Corrosion X HD on the motor and ESC. I just went out and tested it today and everything works perfectly. So it seems like this stuff works good as well.

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                        • woodster
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2011
                          • 430

                          #13
                          Just to add, I had also sprayed liquid tape on my ESC everything that a circuit board or contacts were exposed to water. I think this also helped a great deal in keeping the ESC alive

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                          • xlandguy
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2012
                            • 282

                            #14
                            I've seen videos of folks waterproofing thier stuff with CX. Open the ESC, dunk it completely and reassemble. Supposed to be waterPROOF for months then.

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                            • woodster
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2011
                              • 430

                              #15
                              Originally posted by xlandguy
                              I've seen videos of folks waterproofing thier stuff with CX. Open the ESC, dunk it completely and reassemble. Supposed to be waterPROOF for months then.
                              WOW! Thats pretty cool. Thanks for posting up

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