Service areas
Where We Work
Parker, Palo Pinto and Erath counties and the western edge of Fort Worth. Fifteen pages, written one at a time, because the utility, the fuel and the ground change every few miles out here.
How we work
A service-area business, not a storefront
There is no showroom to walk into. Armored Power Systems is run out of a shop in Santo, in southeast Palo Pinto County, and the work happens where you live. That is not a limitation, it is the job: a standby generator is designed around one specific property, its electrical service, its fuel supply and the ground it has to sit on.
Seth Wells lives in Santo with his family. The company is locally owned, holds Texas Electrical Contractor License TECL #41587, works under Master Electrician oversight, and is an accredited member of the Parker County Chamber of Commerce. Most of the territory below is within an easy morning of the shop. We do not publish drive times, because traffic on I‑20 and a gravel county road are not the same trip.
Each location page below is written from public records for that place: which utility owns the wire, how many homes actually have a natural gas meter, how much of the county is on septic, and what the housing stock looks like. If a page reads differently from its neighbor, that is because the place is different.
By county
Fifteen places, grouped the way the map works
County lines matter more than you would expect. Permitting, septic authorization and electric territory all follow them.
Parker County
The largest share of our work. Three different electric regimes coexist here: the City of Weatherford runs its own municipal utility, Oncor delivers along the I-20 corridor, and Tri-County Electric Cooperative carries the rural line miles. Natural gas stops at most town limits.
- Parker County, TXThree separate electric regimes inside one county, and two different soils to dig in.
- Weatherford, TXCity-owned electric utility, a historic core of century-old homes, and acreage past the limits.
- Aledo, TXThe highest gas-meter coverage of any town limits in the county, and propane everywhere outside them.
- Willow Park, TXA settled I-20 suburb with almost no piped natural gas. Propane and all-electric country.
- Hudson Oaks, TXThe city itself says electricity comes from Tri-County or Oncor. Two systems, one town.
- Brock, TXNo gas utility at all. Every standby unit here runs on propane.
- Millsap, TXA 1.47-square-mile town inside a 124-square-mile school district. Wells, septic and LP tanks.
- Springtown, TXThe only town we serve on Atmos, split across Parker and Wise counties.
Palo Pinto County
Our home county. Five separate electric utilities file service territory here, three of them member-owned cooperatives with no retail choice. Six towns have a piped gas utility. Everything between them is propane.
Erath County
Dairy country with the newest housing stock in our whole service area. Three quarters of Erath County households heat with electricity, which makes a January outage a heat problem rather than a lighting problem.
Western Tarrant County
The suburban end of the territory. Oncor delivers, lots are platted, sewer is municipal, and the install conversation shifts from fuel logistics to setbacks, sound and the age of the panel. We do not publish a county-wide Tarrant page, because we work the western side of it, not all of it.
An honest note
If you are near the edge of this map, call before you assume
Plenty of contractors publish a list of forty towns and figure out the drive later. We would rather be straight about it. The pages here are the places we work regularly and can speak about with some authority. Communities just past them, out toward Azle, Granbury, Ranger, Eastland or the far side of Erath County, are a conversation rather than a promise.
A full installation is a different calculation from a service call on a unit somebody else put in. One is a scheduled project. The other is a truck, a technician and a parts inventory. Tell us the address and what you need, and you will get a plain answer either way.
Emergency after-hours service is available for existing systems. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Where to find us
The shop, the license and the phone
Based at 14145 US-281, Santo, TX 76472. Everything else we do comes to you.
- Phone
- (817) 381-6158
- Based in
- 14145 US-281, Santo, TX 76472
- License
- TECL #41587
Buying a generator
Start with sizing. What has to keep running decides the machine, and the machine decides the fuel and the pad.
Already own one
We service Generac, Kohler, Briggs & Stratton, Cummins, Champion and Honeywell units, including ones another company installed. See generator repair.
Keeping it ready
Every new installation includes the first full year of routine maintenance. After that, annual and bi-annual plans keep the record clean.
Common questions
Questions about our service area
Four things people ask before they ask about generators.
Do you have a showroom I can visit?
No. Armored Power Systems is a service-area business run out of a shop in Santo, and the work happens at your property. The site visit is the showroom: we walk the meter, the panel, the fuel supply and the ground where a unit could sit, then put a written proposal together from what we actually saw. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, with emergency after-hours service available.
My town is not on your list. Will you still come out?
Call and ask. The fifteen pages here cover the places we work most often, but service areas have soft edges, and a project on the far side of one of these counties is a different answer from a one-hour service call. We would rather tell you plainly on the phone than take a deposit and then quietly stretch the drive.
Why does it matter which utility serves my address?
Because it changes almost everything downstream. A cooperative member cannot shop retail providers and reports outages to the co-op. An Oncor customer has a retail provider on the bill but reports outages to Oncor. A City of Weatherford customer answers to the city for both. Restoration priority, outage duration and even how Winter Storm Uri was billed all differ by utility, and we check which one you are on before we quote.
Do you work outside city limits?
Most of our work is outside city limits. Rural addresses are where a private well, a septic system, a shop and a long driveway all depend on the same meter, and where an outage stops being about lights. Unincorporated projects usually mean county permitting rather than municipal, a propane tank rather than a gas meter, and a pad sited clear of the drainfield.
Related
Start with the work itself
- Standby Generator InstallationThe full scope: load calculation, permitting, pad, transfer switch and a live load test.
- Generator SizingWhy square footage does not size a generator, and what a well pump does to the numbers.
- Electrical Panel UpgradesOn older housing stock this is usually the first conversation, not the last.
- Maintenance PlansWhat happens after the first free year of service.
- About Armored Power SystemsWho runs the company, where it is based and what it is licensed to do.
- ContactPhone, email and the fastest way to get an address checked.
Two ways to start
Which one are you?
Need a generator
We start with what has to keep running at your property — the well, the AC, the freezer, the shop — and size the system around it. You get a written proposal with the equipment, the electrical work and the site prep all in one number.
Already own one
Repair, diagnostics and scheduled maintenance for Generac, Kohler and Briggs & Stratton systems — including units another company installed. Tell us the brand and what it is doing and we will bring the right parts.