Have brand new house and livingroom lights dim for a second everytime the air condition kicks in. is it normal?
athomemom74 asked:
Our lights in our livingroom flick off for a millisecond everytime our air kicks on. We have a brand new house. The electritians came and put heavier wire in and the electric co. came and said there was enough power to the house. Still nothing worked. Is this normal?
Joycelyn
Our lights in our livingroom flick off for a millisecond everytime our air kicks on. We have a brand new house. The electritians came and put heavier wire in and the electric co. came and said there was enough power to the house. Still nothing worked. Is this normal?
Joycelyn
February 14th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Letisha
yes. it is normal, it happens in all houses.
February 17th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Arlinda
Does it only do it when it kicks on? Then that’s ok, because most houses do do that. Air conditioners suck a lot of power. It shouldn’t make your fuse blow or anything. And if it doesn’t, it’s fine.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Eunice
The AC is just using alot of energy
February 18th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Coreen
IF it is only one room some were the Electricians have it wired wrong
February 21st, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Christal
well when your compressor kick on it is an powers surge, so it would make perfect sense why this happen…….long as this is the only time I really would not worry about it
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
Deanne
Short answer… yes! Long answer, we get it all the time with the shower, it’s cos of the high power needed creates a short lack of power to everything else
February 25th, 2010 at 6:24 am
Evelynn
Well… You may need a different electrisity provider because if your AC takes up da light power… There is something one with the provider.
February 26th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Miles
When that air conditioner kicks on, you have a motor that is drawing a lot of amps starting up.
For the split second it takes to get the motor going, the amperage draw is almost off the charts, and everything else in the house suffers a power drain.
You can run a dedicated line to the air conditioner, but that’s really expensive. Other than that, you can live with it, and know that it’s not hurting anything.
- Stuart
March 1st, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Leida
Too much power coming out of one breaker. your plugs may be in different areas but usually it should be only one room comes out of a single breaker. unfortunately when people built houses they put to much on one breaker. maybe plug you a/c in another room or se what else you have plugged in there and see if you can unload other stuff to anothere area
March 4th, 2010 at 12:29 am
Leigha
electricians need to put wiring in there per “code”. If they have reached that “code” amount then they are satisfied so sure it’s enough power to the house. However it’s still not strong enough for the AC you put in as it needs more. I remember my dad going to the box in the basement and putting the AC on a line of its own and it’s not pulling off the same wires that everything else is. That would cost you money to do and the people who built the home are not responsible for changing that for you.
March 5th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Stephenie
Everyone else that has posted here are wrong. There is a problem…could be that some wiring is undersized, not enough voltage coming into the house, or the compressor may be a little hard on start-up which causes a high amp draw. I am not saying it does not happen because it does quite frequently. Should you worry, well I guess that depends on how hard he lights draw when the ac kicks on. Good luck!
March 7th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Leora
It depends on how you define normal. The unit is drawing extra power when it first starts. If you want to solve the problem, have an electrician hook you A/C to it’s own breaker.