Name: Diamond Certified Experts: Electrical Panel Safety
Uploaded: 2016-04-08T22:00:55Z
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SAN MARTIN — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you live in an older home, your electric panel is probably outdated. Worse still, it may represent a safety hazard. Today we’re in San Martin with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Henry Acosta of California Power and Light to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Henry Acosta: So, we recommend if your home was built before the 80s, before the 70s &#8211; . So, if you have a home 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, a lot of times the panels that were installed in these times were Zinscos, Federal Pacific. And then the newer ones in the 70s, 80s were Challenger. These particular panels are definitely something to be concerned about. You should have a technician look at them. If you do have any of these panels, we recommend to upgrade them.
The reason being is some of these panels, the breakers don’t detect when you’re having an issue in your home. When you’re wiring, let’s say, an overload or a short circuit. If these breakers don’t detect a problem, what can happen is your wires can overheat and that can lead to a fire. So, we definitely recommend if you have an older home, or sometimes even a newer home, if you smell any burning, or if you continuously trip a breaker, we recommend for you to have us come out and take a look at it, evaluate the panel.
And if you have one of these panels, we’re definitely going to recommend for you to upgrade. When we upgrade, we use Square D. That’s usually the best brand out there. And these Square D brands will detect your problems and could definitely be helpful to not having a fire in your house.
Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.org.

Video: Electrical Panel Safety

Henry Acosta, Owner of California Power and Light, a Diamond Certified company, gives some helpful tips on if you live in an older home, your electric panel is probably outdated.

Electrical Panel Safety from Henry Acosta of California Power and Light.

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Host, Sarah Rutan: If you live in an older home, your electric panel is probably outdated. Worse still, it may represent a safety hazard. Today we’re in San Martin with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Henry Acosta of California Power and Light to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Henry Acosta: So, we recommend if your home was built before the 80s, before the 70s – . So, if you have a home 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, a lot of times the panels that were installed in these times were Zinscos, Federal Pacific. And then the newer ones in the 70s, 80s were Challenger. These particular panels are definitely something to be concerned about. You should have a technician look at them. If you do have any of these panels, we recommend to upgrade them.

The reason being is some of these panels, the breakers don’t detect when you’re having an issue in your home. When you’re wiring, let’s say, an overload or a short circuit. If these breakers don’t detect a problem, what can happen is

Diamond Certified Experts: Electrical Panel Safety

Electrical Panels That Threaten Safety


if you live in an older home your
electrical panel is probably outdated
we're still it may represent a safety
hazard
today we're in San martín with diamond
certified expert contributor Henry
Acosta California Power & Light to learn
more so we recommend if your home was
built before the 80s before the 70s so
if you have a home 1950s 1960s 1970s a
lot of times the panels that weren't
installed in these times where Cisco's
Federal Pacific and then the newer ones
in the 70s 80s were challenger these
particular panels are definitely
something to be concerned about you
should have a technician look at them if
you do have any of these panels we
recommend to upgrade them the reason
being is some of these panels the
breakers don't detect when you're having
an issue in your home when you're wiring
that lets say an overload or a
short-circuit if these if these breakers
don't detect the problem what can happen
is your wires can overheat and that can
lead to a fire so we definitely
recommend if you if you have an older
home or sometimes even a newer home if
you smell any burning or if you can
continuously trip a breaker we recommend
for you to have us come out take a look
at it evaluate the panel and if you have
one of these panels we're definitely
going to recommend for you to upgrade
when you are when we upgrade we use
Square D that's usually the best brand
out there and these Square D brands will
detect your your problems and could
definitely be helpful to not having a
fire in your house

to learn more from local top rated
companies visit our diamond certified
expert reports at experts diamond
certified org


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