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Super Bowl Blackout Caused By Defective Protective Relay

Posted by timothy on from the ravens-can-see-at-night dept.

New submitter wilby writes "Power company Entergy New Orleans says the Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages. A device designed to improve the Superdome electrical system reliability instead caused it to shut down dramatically during Super Bowl 47. [The company] said testing traced the source of the problem to an 'electrical relay device' it had installed in December to protect Superdome equipment in case a cable failure occurred between the company's switchgear and the stadium."

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  1. Re:Did someone lost his job? by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this happen: someone is going to get fired over this... So, who got fired?

    Presumably the person that receives the big end-of-year bonus when everything goes well?

  2. Re:Did someone lost his job? by Hamsterdan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, that's the way it goes in some parallel universe :)

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    I've got better things to do tonight than die.
  3. Next Year... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The NFL just announced that next year, the Superbowl will be played at a Motel 6, because they'll leave the lights on for you.