We now know what caused that blackout during Super Bowl XLVII.
New Orleans’ power utility Entergy said today that the 34-minute outage was caused by an electrical relay device designed to prevent power snafus, AP reports. The utility said it’s looking in to whether it was due to a design flaw or a manufacturing defect. However, Chicago-based manufacturer S&C Electric Co., which supplied the relay installed in the Superdome, said separately in a statement that system operators outside their purview had set the device’s trip setting too low, causing the outage. With the second-highest Super Bowl ratings in 27 years, CBS isn’t complaining.
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C’mon now… we all know this was New Orleans way of sticking to Roger Goddell for the bounty-gate scandal. No better way to do that than by embarrassing the NFL on it’s biggest stage.
“Looks like the auto destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up.”