I have moved into this house for 9 months and this problem keeps bugging me.
the house had a 100A panel when we moved in. and as soon as we moved in, we found that whenever equipment like garbage disposer, shop vac, power drill, mitter saw and air conditioner kicks off, all the lights inside the house blinked for a fraction of second.
the blinking caused by garbage disposer is less serious than it caused by air conditioner compressor. My guess is that compressor takes more current than the GD and anything else.
So we upgrade our panel to 200A, the blinking problem persists, but when we switch on GD, it doesn't blinks this time, while air conditioner still cause it to blink, just a little bit better.
So I get my plumber who installed my air conditioner here, we measured the current when a/c kicks off, it's 12A when started and 9A when running, far less than the 30A circuit breaker that supply the compressor.
Then I get PECO changed the line coming into the house, the problem persists!
Then two electrician came separately, they each inspected the connection from the meter to the panel, and everything was confirmed tight. We put an extra ground wire from the panel to my waterline, the problem persists!
I checked with my neighbor and he doesn't have an issue with that.
I plugged a lamp line directly to the main power line that coming into the panel, and when my air conditioner compressor kicks off, the lamp blinks.
I'm really tired of this and nobody can figure what's going on here.
anyone can save me??? it's really a headache.
the house had a 100A panel when we moved in. and as soon as we moved in, we found that whenever equipment like garbage disposer, shop vac, power drill, mitter saw and air conditioner kicks off, all the lights inside the house blinked for a fraction of second.
the blinking caused by garbage disposer is less serious than it caused by air conditioner compressor. My guess is that compressor takes more current than the GD and anything else.
So we upgrade our panel to 200A, the blinking problem persists, but when we switch on GD, it doesn't blinks this time, while air conditioner still cause it to blink, just a little bit better.
So I get my plumber who installed my air conditioner here, we measured the current when a/c kicks off, it's 12A when started and 9A when running, far less than the 30A circuit breaker that supply the compressor.
Then I get PECO changed the line coming into the house, the problem persists!
Then two electrician came separately, they each inspected the connection from the meter to the panel, and everything was confirmed tight. We put an extra ground wire from the panel to my waterline, the problem persists!
I checked with my neighbor and he doesn't have an issue with that.
I plugged a lamp line directly to the main power line that coming into the panel, and when my air conditioner compressor kicks off, the lamp blinks.
I'm really tired of this and nobody can figure what's going on here.
anyone can save me??? it's really a headache.