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+name: project-marine-cert-prep
+description: "What the user's \"Marine Cert Prep\" doot chain is for — NMEA MEI certification study plan"
+metadata: 
+  node_type: memory
+  type: project
+  originSessionId: 119bd1a5-fb32-4222-9695-fcbe2c8fd63b
+---
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+The user is working toward NMEA Marine Electrical Installer (MEI) certification. Tracked as a 16-step locked/linear task chain in doot (see [[reference_doot_marine_codemap]] for exact IDs/DB/code locations).
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+Created 2026-07-17. As of creation, only step 0 ("Pass NMEA DC Electrical Overview online prerequisite") is unlocked/due; the rest unlock one at a time on completion (WIP-1 chain).
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+Plan covers, in order: the NMEA online prerequisite, ABYC E-11 DC electrical rules (7-40-72 rule, battery switch placement, AIC parameters, temperature/bundling de-rating, voltage-drop budgets), a wire-sizing cheat sheet, AC/DC grounding and ELCI/galvanic-isolation rules, a distance/dimension cheat sheet, the ABYC Marine Electrical practice exams (target >85% before booking the proctored exam), an FCC Amateur Radio General license (via HamStudy.org, focused on G5/G6/G9), and finally a logged hands-on volunteer electrical audit at Honokohau to start the 1-year NMEA experience clock.
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+**How to apply:** treat this as a personal certification study project, not a software project — "code" work here means reading/updating doot's chain data (via DB or the chain API/UI), not writing new features, unless the user separately asks for a doot code change.