CBS was one of the few beneficiaries. They got to air a lot more commercials at an expensive rate.

Since the Ravens have beaten all other contenders in this particular sport in the world, they are, by definition, world champions. Gotta love the arrogance of people who seek out Americans for the sole purpose of ridiculing their arrogance. If you don’t like it, darlin’, don’t watch.

Relays are essentially electrically operated switches. Switchgear is basically the electrical distribution center and protective circuit breakers for a building like a stadium. Modern switchgear is smart and monitored and controlled via computer or relays that contain computer controls. Unlike your home that has a bunch of circuits hooked up to your breaker box that are only wired one way, the electrical distribution in a building like the Superdome has relays that allow the stadium engineers to switch high-load devices from circuit to circuit to maximize load efficiency or make sure certain circuits and breakers aren’t overloaded.

I’d bet that in order to supply power to something related to the halftime show a number of relays were flipped putting the electrical load for the halftime show on circuits also used for stadium lighting. Coming out of halftime the stadium engineer was supposed to flip those relays back to whatever configuration they were set for to handle the load of the lighting, AC, video boards, etc. The lights came back on, it took a few minutes for things to heat up, and eventually a breaker blew. The fact they could power back up in only half an hour actually proves the equipment did it’s job and there was no permanent damage.

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Thanks for clearing that up Mr. Spock.

Modern switchgear is smart

What’s not smart are the engineers
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Engineers don’t design rooms. They USE the rooms that architects design.
But your comment is hilarious regardless and in the true spirit of the craft vs. management battle that rages on.

And regarding the football article… I hope Powergate doesn’t get legs.
Machines break sometimes.

What’s not smart are the engineers who design the little rooms they sit in, and people like me are employed to wrestle these 800 pound monsters in through doors not made for the purpose.

I appreciate your dissertation, though. It increased my understanding of them.

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“World” champions? Kinda hard to be a “world” champ without actually playing any competition from beyond your own borders. More like National Champs. Gotta love American arrogance.

Relays are essentially electrically operated switches. Switchgear is basically the electrical distribution center and protective circuit breakers for a building like a stadium. Modern switchgear is smart and monitored and controlled via computer or relays that contain computer controls. Unlike your home that has a bunch of circuits hooked up to your breaker box that are only wired one way, the electrical distribution in a building like the Superdome has relays that allow the stadium engineers to switch high-load devices from circuit to circuit to maximize load efficiency or make sure certain circuits and breakers aren’t overloaded.

I’d bet that in order to supply power to something related to the halftime show a number of relays were flipped putting the electrical load for the halftime show on circuits also used for stadium lighting. Coming out of halftime the stadium engineer was supposed to flip those relays back to whatever configuration they were set for to handle the load of the lighting, AC, video boards, etc. The lights came back on, it took a few minutes for things to heat up, and eventually a breaker blew. The fact they could power back up in only half an hour actually proves the equipment did it’s job and there was no permanent damage.

BS, The power was thrown because ratings were dropping. Just a last ditch effort to swing the momentum. It worked. Yet another Super Bowl came down to the last play.
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The league did the right thing. I just feel they could have turned the switch back on after about 15 to 20 minutes. 34 minutes was a bit excessive.