Posted by John in La on February 09, 2013 at 18:35:45 from (184.38.236.37):
Last weekend during the super bowl there was a partial power outage.
Entergy the company that supplies power to the dome and SMG the company that manages the stadium for the state told the city council they would bring in an outside 3rd party firm to find the root cause of the problem.
That has not happened to date and some on the city council are asking why did you say it and then not do it.
Entergy workers traced the problem to a relay it installed in 2011. The upgrade work was done to provide a newer more advanced type of protection for the Superdome because of past problems at other stadiums. While this relay is owned and installed by Entergy they stopped short of taking blame for the power outage and were looking into whether the electrical relay at fault had a design flaw or a manufacturing defect.
Not long after the announcement, the manufacturer of the relay S&C Electric Co said the relay was not at fault but rather Entergy put the relays trip setting too low. If higher settings had been used the relay would not have tripped cutting the power.
Entergy responded to this by saying S&C and Entergy had run test on the two relays at the dome after the game and one worked as expected and the other did not.
When Entergy was asked by the city council if the problem was a design flaw or a defect in a part of the equipment they responded that had not been determined.
I guess we will never find out what really caused the problem.
But out with the old and in with the new. This weekend is the big Mardi Gras weekend. It is even hard for us to contemplate that this coming Tuesday is just another Tuesday everywhere else but here. If you don’t think that Mardi Gras is a big deal think about one of the floats rolling in the Endymion parade tonight. It is 330ft long; holds 230 riders and cost $1.2 million dollars to build. It is so big they made a test run down the parade route a while back just to make sure it would fit down the city streets and get around narrow corners. It is being pulled by a tractor with the ability to pull up to 190 tons.
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