Newbie here, introducing myself.

[zmurphy]

Hey guys, As stated before i am new here, great board! i just wanted to the time to introduce myself. i have recently been laid off from a communications company (Avaya formerly Lucent tech./AT&T). i have been in communications for 12 years doing structured cabling, phone systems, etc...
i have decided to open my own company , subcontracting to larger companies doing the same job i have been doing. i am staying pretty busy so far. i am also venturing into Home Theater and Home Audio. while building my house 3 years ago i prewired it for HT and 6 zones for audio. after having friends over to my house i have done alot of their houses now too! i just finished a upperscale day spa & salon a friend of mine is opening, including 7 zones of audio, phone system and complete computer network.
i have really come to enjoy doing wiring for audio and HT, more so than structured cabling. i think i am growing bored w/ the communications and the HT/Audio is new and challenging to me. my hopes are to subcontract to real HT/Audio stores in area for installs or atleast wiring.
i would like to find some sort of a training course or materials for HT/Audio, like different componets, HT technology. i would like to know what i am working on and be able to talk competently to customers about the equipment.
if there are any installers reading this thatcould make some reccomendations for me (training wise) i would greatly appreciate it! again, great site and thanks for letting me take up your time!

 

[krzywica]

You might want to try to PM mtrycrafts. I think he does installs

 

[bpape]

The best thing in the long term would be to begin working toward your CEDIA cert.

 

[jaxvon]

No, mtry doesn't do installs, but BMXTRIX and RLA do. Talk to them. Heck, Gene and Clint are both great resources as well.

 

[zmurphy]

hey thanks for the replies! i did recently buy the Cedia/ HTI study guide and it comes w/ a practice test on cd-rom. i am reading the guide and i have taken the practice test a couple of times (i actually did better than i thought i would) . has anyone else tried the practice exams? are they close to the real exams? does anyone on this board have any of the Cedia certs?
i did look at the books that Cedia reccomends and there is alot of stuff to cover compared to whats on the practice exams. i hope to hear from someone who has taken the level 1 exam so i can see how the practice exams compare to the real ones. i have taken practice exams (Net+, Cisco ccna) that are really close to the real thing and some that weren't!

 

[mtrycrafts]

You might want to try to PM mtrycrafts. I think he does installs

Nope, that is not me But, there is another or more who do, not sure who though.

 

[Sheep]

I agree, RLA. Go to him, he knows is what not.



And might I say, welcome to are nice warm, happy family. Warm like when I pee myself........scratch that last one.


sheep