Blog 25: Mentorship Log

LIA Response to blog:
 Mentorshp Log
     Interpretive
     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
The most importat thing I have gained from my experience in my mentorship was the experience I obtained, with the experience I now have the ability to go to any stereo shop, or place and say i have experience in 12v electronics installation I would like to apply, my experience is also professional experience that can be proved, I belive that is the most important thing I have gained.
    Applied
     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.
The work at the shop helped me answeer my Essentia Question because any answer i came up with, i was able to test, thanks to working at Car Audio Depot, for example I was told some cars sound better than other, and thanks to working on different types of cars, I was able to prove that. same thing goes with sub enclosures, different sized and shaped enclosures mave the sound either better or worse. I also learned important things at the shop that has to do wth wiring, such as not running power wire with other cables or wires because it creates a magnetic field. Thanks to my mentorship at the shop I was able to proove and test all my answers and show that they do improve sound quality.

Blog 24: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question?  What is the best answer to your question and why?

What is most important in obtaining the best performance out of a car audio system? out of my three main answers the best is, Balanced constant, positive and negative current maintains a car audio system at optimum performance, this is the best answer because it is the most basic and most critical thing to take into consideration when installing a system. Speaker location, is key, to give ambient to the car, depending on the speaker location, you can get a surround sound feel, or a full sound feel, or even just a partial feel. Improper positioning of a speaker can also bring damage to the speaker, for example placing it on a door, or in a vulnerable position where it can be damaged by outside sources. It is also important speakers have the right amount of airspace and are placed in the right enclosure. As important as speaker location is, the speaker will regardless still produce sound, and fill the air with the sound waves it produces, it is the signal that the speaker receives that decides the way the speaker will sound. Signal is transferred through wires and cables so it is in the best interest to make sure that electronics are placed in suitable places. For example power wires create a small magnetic field and should be ran separately from rca and speaker wires. They should also be in safe areas for passengers but close to ground and other wires. The signal the wires carry are important but not as important as what gives the signal which is the amplifiers and other electronics, obviously however just buying the best equipment is not an answer, in my science experiment, i found that keeping the voltage at a constant 14.4v maximizes the electronics performance. Ground must also be properly placed, short same size as power and all connected to the same ground.  9092827306

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

In order to arrive to this answer, I needed to researched what ground was and how it was used, then I realized that amplifiers perform better under certain volts thanks to my mentor, because of this I performed a science experiment to see if different levels of distortion could be correlated with  different voltages, which proved to be true.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them? When perform my experiment, i was unable to obtain as many amplifiers as i would have liked, i did however borrow way more than i could ever hope to test, i also committed a mistake during my first independent component when i connected 5 subs into one amplifier causing issues with the ohms but that was latter solved while reading a book.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The two most significant sources where my mentor and a book named Auto Audio, they are the most important sources because my mentor taught me field work and the book elaborated on what he explained, it gave me more in depth reasons, which helped tremendously in my search for knowledge 

(5) What is your product and why? My product, is a job at car audio depot and my sub woofer enclosure without having met contacts in my mentor ship i would not have been able to accomplish either of them. Because their is always constant production of automobiles I along with my mentor am always learning new things on

Interview 5: 2014 Interview

Content:

1.  Who did you interview and what house are they in?
Tania Negrete South House
2.  What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
Something with lifeguard and after school outside activities maybe activity coordinator
She likes to be outside and doing stuff hates being in a office.
3.  What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship experience?
Santa Fe damn someone she knows she's a lifeguard and program adviser
4.  What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hour presentations?
S expects the speaker to be involved listening to questions.
5.  What questions do you have that I can answer about senior year or senior project (or what additional information did you tell them about senior year or senior project)?

How specific does the topic have to be?
I responded by saying that you start with a general topic and throughout out the year it becomes extremely specific, but there is plenty of help in making an specific and well defined Essential Question. 

Blog 22: 3 Column Chart

3 Column Auto Audio Proof