Blog 24: May Extra Blog

Carl La Russa 

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Blog 24: May Extra Blog

This month has been very busy at my mentorship. First my mentor and I had to take a trip down to Sycuan Casino in San Diego to replace three faulty tracking units in some buses. When we arrived at the casino, we were notified by the transportation official that Sycuan 6, code-name for Limo 6 was getting an interior makeover which created more stress for my mentor because he has to track down the vehicle and do a separate installation at some other time. On top of that, our tech support man, Tom Smith who lives in the UK was unable to provide us with technical support as he was attending to other business. With all these issues on our hands, we still managed to replace the other faulty units and check that all the units at the casino were running properly.

The following week, my mentor calls me and tells me that Sycuan 6 is at a customization shop in Ontario and that it was going to be his only chance at intercepting the limo before it heads back down to San Diego. So I agreed to go along with him and install a new unit. We get to the shop at around 9 A.M., get the keys to the limo from the manager and we begin working. Two hours later, we complete the installation and call it a day. 20 minutes after I get home, my mentor calls me and says that the unit is not registering on the tracking program and that there is a faulty connection within the wiring. The limo was scheduled to leave the shop that evening and go back down to San Diego, but luckily for us, they decided to postpone it until the next morning. In the end everything worked out as planned.

Here is my mentor inspecting the faulty unit that we retrieved out of Sycuan 42.

Here my mentor is preparing to replace the faulty unit in Sycuan 2.

It turned out that the unit that was installed in this van by the casino mechanic was buried under the dashboard. It took us about an hour just to locate the unit.