Re: [TCML] Biography and projects (Jim Lux)

[Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Who: Jim Lux
> Where: Thousand Oaks California USA (about 30 miles NE of Los Angeles)
> Contact: jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Experience: Actively coiling since early 90s.
Used to work at a physical special effects shop (http://www.reelefx.com) 
doing tornados, rain, fire and, my particular interest:
 HV pulsed power for special effects (can crushers, quarter shrinking, 
lightning simulation, exploding wires)
These days, I work at Jet Propulsion Lab doing a bit of everything.. 
mostly related to RF. Recently, I'm a co-PI for an experimental software 
radio payload on ISS (SCaN Testbed) and I'm developing a radar to detect 
buried victims in rubble (FINDER for Dept Homeland Security)

Fascination with HV started with a visit to the Deutsches Museum in 
summer of 1969.

Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/
       http://home.earthlink.net/~w6rmk (useful because there's 
material properties there)
http://www.luxfamily.com  (not much for tesla coiling there, but the 
Paschen paper is buried there)

Interests other than Tesla:
Everything, really.  Recently: sausage making http://jim-lux.blogspot.com/
Plans:  Want to build a multi coil setup to duplicate the setup 
described in Rendezvous with Rama.  Still working out the details. I'd 
love to figure out how to do multiple arcs among a triangle of coils. 
I'm a fan of spark gaps (high peak power), but I might have to breakdown 
and go SSTC.
from wikipedia..
"The Horns: A regular grouping of spires at the South Pole, within Rama. 
Exactly at the Pole is a single large spire dubbed the "Big Horn", and 
arranged in a hexagonal pattern around this are six other spires (aka 
"Little Horns"), each shorter and with a smaller diameter. The Horns 
seem to be used in Rama's enigmatic system of propulsion."

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