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Title: Storm Season Prompts Collin County Homeowners to Replace Outdated Electrical Panels

McKinney, Texas, United States, 3rd Jan 2026 — As North Texas enters another severe weather season, electrical safety experts are urging homeowners with aging electrical panels to take action before storm damage reveals dangerous flaws in their home's infrastructure. Local contractors including ABR Electric have observed a significant uptick in panel upgrade requests, particularly from homeowners discovering their decades-old equipment poses serious fire and safety risks."If you have a 40 or 50 year old panel—Federal Pacific, Zinsco, Bulldog, Pushmatic—they all need to go," explains James Adams, master electrician at ABR Electric. "They're the 70s versions of the cars that I grew up with that I hated—Vega, Gremlin, Pinto. I drove several of those. So my point to you is if you've got a Pinto panel in your house, make a plan and change it." The Hidden Danger in Your Breaker BoxThe problem with these vintage panels goes beyond age. Adams points to fundamental design flaws that create fire hazards. "The busing—these two bars that run the whole length of the panel up to the main breaker that feeds power in—the aluminum that they designed it with is super soft. It doesn't have a hard finish or coating, and so it scratches and arcs."The connection mechanism compounds the problem. "If you look at these clips, this is just a tension clip. There's no real positive connection here," Adams explains. "If the busing is pitted at all and these clips are sprung or loose, you have this cycle of arcing where I've pulled these out and this whole bottom section is burned away. The design flaw for you to understand as a homeowner is the way the breakers connect to get power out of the panel and put it out into your house is flawed. It's not positive. That's your bottom line."Warning Si...

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