Fifteen years ago, for example, Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) panels were acceptable to insurers if the electrician would certify the good working order of the panel, McAfee said. FPE products ...

Millions of U.S. and Canadian homes were built with circuit breaker panels that one expert has questioned as a potential fire hazard. Issues about Federal Pacific Electric’s “Stab-Lok ...

Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) sold millions of panels between the 1950's and 1980's. Testing by the Consumer Product Safety Commision has shown these breakers to have an unacceptably high rate of ...

The “Stab-Lok” circuit breaker and panel produced by Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) installed in hundreds of thousands of homes in the Bay Area may cause house fires, according decades of ...

Sometimes, Federal Pacific Electric breakers fail to trip ... “The Federal Pacific Electrical panels are notorious for malfunctioning. Many of these circuit breakers fail to trip during an ...

One such panel that I come across from time to time is the Federal Pacific electric panel. The Federal Pacific electric panel that was manufactured from the mid-1950s into the 1980s poses a danger ...

The Federal Pacific Electric company no longer exists but ... Columbus Fire Department Building Inspectors say that Federal Pacific electrical panels with Stab-Lok circuit breakers are most ...