Chris Buglione
Date: Sunday the 5 of September
Contact: Visit
Subject: mentor
Reason for contact: this was my first contact where I met with Mr. Patelunas and asked him to become my mentor.
Discussion: I first asked him to become my mentor and then we talked about my project. I introduced the topic to him and talked about the project. I told him that I was working on the electrical and the hydraulic portion of the project. After this brief discussion I thanked him for his help then we when our separate whys.
Location: Immanuel Bible church
Thoughts after: After this conversation I was glad he accepted being my mentor and happy that it went well
Date: The 28 of September
Contact: Visit
Subject: converting water power
Reason: To discuss out current design and ask of suggestions for the creation of my part of the system.
Location: Immanuel Bible church
Discussion: First I gave him a mini formal progress up date to catch him up to where we were at that current point in time. After that I asked him to help me with the conversion of power in the water system. He suggested that I use the water wheel hooked up with a generator. I thought that this was a great idea because it made it much easier on me to make the power conversion.
Date: Sunday the 3 of October
Contact: Visit
Subject: Electrical Design
Reason for contact: I met with Mr. Patelunas and talked him about my current design and asked him if it needs to be improved.
Discussion: This is when I talked to him about how I was doing currently in class and asked him how I could improve my current Design. He told me that I should use a micro controller to control the lights and the motion of the motors. This would make the machine very easily resettable. He told me that this ability to reset is critical to the over all success of mine part of the machine.
Location: Immanuel Bible church
Thoughts after: After this conversation I knew he was right. The problem with this is that it meant that I needed to change my drawings further slowing my progress.
Date: Sunday the 7 of November
Contact: Visit
Subject: Electrical Design
Reason for contact: I met with Mr. Patelunas and talked him about my current and my developmental work. Even more changes came from this meeting.
Discussion: He told me that I should replace the transformer in my design with a voltage damper and a heat sink to improve my current Design. He said that this is better because the transformer is more dangerous and harder to use. With the voltage damper he said that I would need a heat sink to counter act the massive amount of heat generated by the damper. The way a damper works it creates resistance by making heat and wasting electricity.
Location: Immanuel Bible church
Thoughts after: His guidance has once again made a major change to this project. This change is necessary to make my project more successful.
