Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I am most proud of my independent component 1, I created a subwoofer enclosure for my car and it looks awesome. I also now know how to make fiberglass enclosures so i will bee doing more of those later.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

I really liked the freedom we were given and i liked having to do independent components, chosing what we do as an assignment didnt feel like an assignment.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I am a very bad researcher. i did not like researching, i feel towards the end i came up with very good sources.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.  

Thanks to this project I now know what my career will be, i will study for an automotive electrical technician. 

Senior Topic Update

This is my last post, it is hard to recap on everything I have done at the shop in the past year, it has been a great experience mentoring, I am glad to know that I am guaranteed my job at the shop after high school, I will be there virtually every day, my last installation was a full system with 2 12 inch subs into a dodge ram, I am now starting to tamper with lighting in a vehicle I personally installed LED strips and neons inside and outside my personal vehicle. Everything I learned in this year, has helped me decide my career path and all my knowledge will surely follow me through out the rest of my life.

Senior Topic Update

This was my very first installation I ever did, everything turned on but It looked horrible, the wires where placed in unsafe locations and same goes for the electronics. I used improper wiring and cabling for the job, in the end the system played but I would hate to be a passenger in that vehicle, wires where showing and connections where improper, I am proud to say that i have come a long way since that first installation. My installations are now clean, precise, and safe.

Senior Topic Update

Today I added a fifth video monitor to a Dodge Challenger it was my first time installing a video monitor on my own and I had a few difficulties. When you have so many monitors, you need a video amplifier, it allows for more screens to reproduce the same image in sync. When i finally got it all together, all the monitors displayed distorted images and often had white noise. I fixed this by remembering something one of my mentors once told me. Instead of having the same ground like in audio, video requires at least two separate ground terminals, and in this case because all monitors had the same ground it was causing distortion in the imaging. Once I added two more ground terminals, the problem was solved.  

Senior Topic Update

Today I installed 3 subs an amp and an epicenter into an Impalla ss at the shop, it took time to run a 0 gauge wire which was what was needed for such a high powered amplifier. and then there was a problem with the ohms and the amp. since there was 3 15 inch subwoofers, it was hard to wire the speakers to get them at the safe impedance level for the amplifier, it also did not help that the amp was a monoblock which meant that the speakers couldnt be divided into different ports and have the ohms be separate on each different sub. Once everything was installed, the epicenter began to give to much strength for the amplifier to reproduce and the electrical system to handle, so i put a different amp, and we did nothing about the power issue, and because of that the lights dimmed immensely every time the bass hit.

this is a picture once everything was installed  

Senior Topic Update

On this day I installed subs into a 1995 camaro, the wiring was a complete mess and it took some time to figure out, these chevy cars come with a stock bose system, with a stock amplifier. The entire system was tampered with and all the speakers were wired improperly I also had to rewire 2 wires (remote and rca) on separate occasions. Separate occasions meaning i had to take apart the interior twice because of not knowing the problem. in the end I had rewired all the speakers to a new amp, and installed a second amp into the car and was able to connect the two subs. 

Above you see the subs I installed and the head unit I connected it all to.

Senior Topic Update

Today, I did a job for Clara's mother. She approached me and explained that one of her Suburbans door made a strange noise when it was being unlock by the remote and switches she wanted the problem fixed, and while I was at it, she wanted her speakers replaced. I bipassed the rear drivers side stock door lock and installed an aftermarket one, and installed 4 aftermarket 6.5 speakers into their chevy suburban, the door panels are hard to remove and I spent most of my time removing them, they where connected with all sorts of hooks that couldn't be removed with panel poppers so it took a long time to remove them. The car already had an after market pioneer headunit so the sound was immaculate with little evidence of distortion.