I must sound terrible in my replies.
Everyone thinks I'm getting ticked off.

Tuff!

But when I see someone going down the same bad path I took, I'll just keep tugging on your belt trying to pull you back, saying ... Duuude, there's a cliff up there. Don't go that way.

Let's see here ...
The ACS712 data sheet says it's good for sensing current for motor control, load detection, etc...
It IS!
As long as you know how to compensate for the type of load you are measuring.

No matter what the ACS712 is going to output a voltage that is in direct proportion to the current it senses. Granted it's going to follow the wave form of the AC current it's still going to be proportinate to the peak current arghhhhh
Not at all.
With RMS the peak doesn't matter anymore. The entire waveform is averaged over time, to represent the amount of current that flowed during a specified time period.

Small motors will generate fairly high peaks, but since there's not much load it can overcome each magnetic pole fairly quickly. So a short duration current flow over the course of 1 AC cycle will average out to maybe one fifth of what you would read from a "Peak value".

I'm not giving up on this I know I will get it.
I hope not. You've already ordered the parts.

When you get down to doing the math. Come back and describe the parameters. I got that part down.
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