American Football: Super Bowl outage traced to faulty device blackout
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In this photo taken on Feb 3, 2013, the Superdome had a power failure in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, in New Orleans. 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 on Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour. -- PHOTO: AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 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.
They said the device has been removed and replacement equipment will be installed.
