A friend and I recently produced some aluminum hydroxide, $\ce{Al(OH)3}$ for a project, and we wondered how it functions as an electrolyte. We know it has a low conductivity and solubility, but we wanted to know for knowledge's sake. We put some aluminum hydroxide in a bowl and used a power supply running at 31.9 volts (The resistance was high enough for the current to be immeasurable). We also used aluminum electrodes (aluminum foil).
The electrodes were bubbling and a white precipitate was forming on the top, and it seems we have less hydroxide than we started with...
So what exactly did we do? $%edit$