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What you're seeing there is only the averaged inrush. In a typical tungsten lamp, the peak current in the first half-cycle can be up to 15 times the running rms current.

I'm impressed you're able to reliably pick it up at all with an energy monitor.  My monitor does continuous sampling and produces an average power every 10 seconds.  The first reading I get when I turn a tungsten bulb on is invariably lower than the following  readings because even though it picks up the massive inrush current, it also picks up all the zero readings before the switch was thrown, and there's typically way more of them than there is inrush.

Had you set up some fancy s/w trigger to only start your averaging after you saw the first non-zero reading?

I did not setup any fancy s/w trigger. I used the basic code which measures only the current from the github and multiplied by 120 to get the power. Although, when I use the code to measure all the variables, It doesnt detect this inrush. I just started using this a couple of days ago so I was not really sure if it was the inrush measured by the ADC.