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Saturday, February 09, 2013

Power Company Blames Faulty Relay For Outage

The failure of a device meant to protect the power supply to the Superdome caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium's power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour.

Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., said the device, called a relay, had been installed to protect the Superdome from a cable failure between the company's incoming power line and lines that run into the stadium.

Company officials said the device performed without problem during January's Sugar Bowl and other earlier events.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

..............BS..............

Anonymous said...

relays are special transformers that go around electrical wires and bus bars to SENSE current. very RARELY do the relays fail, the breaker that they tell to operate does, but they are very simple devices and most are computer circuit board style today. Electromagnetic are 40 yr old technology, i would HOPE they have upgraded the SUPERDOME by now (it did have renovations in 2005)

Anonymous said...

I'm throwing down the BS flag. We all know millions upon millions of dollars were bet on this game and there was a pay off somewhere for someone to stall the game and throw off the momentum of the Ravens. The way this game was going Flacco and the Ravens were going to wipe out the 49'ers by a land slide. That power outage wasn't some fluke.