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Hey Guys. I have a small laser printer (Brother HL-2270DW) which has an uncomfortable amount of initial current draw when first powered on. My wall meter only shows a max of 950 watts (8 amps), but apparently it's enough of a sudden jolt to momentarily set off multiple UPS's in my apartment and cause a change in the lights. It's also very likely that my wall meter isn't refreshing fast enough to show the true momentary max draw (the spec sheet says it updates only once per second). Separately, a Dyson vacuum measuring 10 amps at the wall does NOT cause the same problem, though it appears to take a few seconds to ramp up to full draw.
I'm in a 50-60 year old building, but I expect the wiring is fairly decent. The breaker panels look brand new (though they were changed before I got here 10 years ago), so some amount of updating has been done relatively recently. I have a 100 amp main to my unit, and a mixture of 15 and 20 amp circuits. The printer will cause this behavior even when there is near-zero load elsewhere.
In any case, in-wall wiring is beyond my control, so please don't suggest nonsense like telling the landlord to gut and re-wire the whole building. Barring that, is there any sort of relatively cheap/easy method to buffer the brief initial current draw??
I'm in a 50-60 year old building, but I expect the wiring is fairly decent. The breaker panels look brand new (though they were changed before I got here 10 years ago), so some amount of updating has been done relatively recently. I have a 100 amp main to my unit, and a mixture of 15 and 20 amp circuits. The printer will cause this behavior even when there is near-zero load elsewhere.
In any case, in-wall wiring is beyond my control, so please don't suggest nonsense like telling the landlord to gut and re-wire the whole building. Barring that, is there any sort of relatively cheap/easy method to buffer the brief initial current draw??