anybody master level MECP?

Just curious to see if any members are first class certified.electronics run off of smoke, when you let the smoke out they stop working

I am first class security. Someone who works for my company is a master in Colorado. Damn, I should talk my boss into paying for the test.Certified Security Specialist

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I prefer experience over certification also.  I waited 3 years before I took the first test.  The job I might be going back to bases commision on your certification level.  I'm going to take the first class test and hopefully pass it, and then look to taking the master level test.  I know that the master level is going to be crazy hard!!!  I'm just curious about questions that they ask on it, if any one has taken it would be interesting to hear some of the questions that they ask.electronics run off of smoke, when you let the smoke out they stop working

Charles_R_H wrote: I prefer experience over certification also.  I waited 3 years before I took the first test.  The job I might be going back to bases commision on your certification level.  I'm going to take the first class test and hopefully pass it, and then look to taking the master level test.  I know that the master level is going to be crazy hard!!!  I'm just curious about questions that they ask on it, if any one has taken it would be interesting to hear some of the questions that they ask.

i feel the same way experience prevails

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Experience is better, but that piece of paper is basic credibility. Remember, a certification test cannot test EVERYTHING for any particular level. It just means you understand basic concepts at that level. I have no certification, but have about 8+ Years experience. Because I value my customer's opinions, and satifaction, my installs tend to be much better than some of the local shops. Well, the ones that employ several 'kids', doing it part time, still in HS; just trying to earn a couple bucks and to be able to 'hook their friends up'. DXAV

I too hire by experience. That piece of paper cost me alot of money to have airbags replaced. I hired someone because of that MECP piece of paper and found out the hard way that it is only a piece of paper. I have 15+ years and will never hire because of MECP again.SoundFX

Experience is great. But MECP certifications suggest that the person will at least have been exposed to the why wiring too many speakers in parallel will blow your amp, how to calculate resistance (door locks and security!) w/ unequal resistors in parallel, and how to properly tune an amp. None of this makes a great installer; installation is about a lot of things other than that, and you can do a heck of a lot of stuff in the real world w/o any understanding of the theory behind what you're doing. And it's certainly true that most reasonably intelligent people will pick up most of that theory given enough time doing... But I have to say that if I was choosing between two equally experienced installers (and I wasn't allowed to see some of their previous work), I'd choose the one w/ MECP cert over the one w/o. Me

How do you blow and airbag!? I just don't understand?