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.

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!

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.

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

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

Well… You may need a different electrisity provider because if your AC takes up da light power… There is something one with the provider.

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

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

IF it is only one room some were the Electricians have it wired wrong

The AC is just using alot of energy