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Let's be reasonable here. Each circuit in your house will have a MCB. They are typically rated at 15A. You can always overload such a circuit (with a lawn mower + hedge cutter + soldering iron + power drill + oven +...). To my perception, the lowest draw from the PMC was too close for (or...

Your typical circuit in the UK is designed for 13A at 240V. That is 3kW. I have a granny charger from BMW for our Mini that is good for 2.5kW. When I add a hedge cutter on the same circuit, the circuit breaker pops. Those 2.5kW produce a nice amount of heat on the socket (which is a normal...

Sorry, how does this work? Mine lies in the shed unused because the lowest power draw from that thing is so high that it would overload any standard UK socket. I can see that you are in the US but from memory US domestic circuits aren't designed for such power draws either. Where could you...

Oh I see. I am hopelessly inelastic on price being signed up to Porsche Charging Services. They may have those ABB units at Clacket Lane. Every time someone rocked up, my current went down. I left pretty quickly to charge at a near-by Porsche. Those Porsche chargers rock.

Had the navigation lag on a number of occasions. In my perception, all the phenomena in the OP relate to a loss of connectivity. Check perhaps Home/Devices/.../Built-in SIM. Or easier: how is your Spotify icon feeling? A bit grey, not wanting to play?

Bit of a teasing post without stating a reason. My personal experience is chequered. Grid Serve at MOTO Delamere is awesome, your luck at Grid Serve at Clacket Lane depends on who else is there and at Cobham the max you get is 50kW (you are better off with Ionity - if you can flipping find...

I see. Because European Teslas feature a CCS port? So I can rock up at any Tesla charger, wave my magic Porsche Charging Card and away I go`?

I completely concur. That is my observation too. But because that is so, the OP's ambition (to only charge during off-peak) must fail (in the presence of a Timer). Ditto likely ct4s (in the presence of a target SOC for Octopus - depends on whether their app gives greater priority to the...

I think the "within the window" is irrelevant. When you connect the EVSE, the BMS senses the available power and calculates backwards from 7am when it needs to start charging. (It may be - I have not observed this - that when the target charge can be attained within the window, that the BMS...

Of course not. Which was precisely my point. In that absurd Profile configuration, the Timer overrides (takes priority) to assure that you get your 90% at 7am. But that means, in the context of ct4s' post, that you will end up charging outside the window.

There is a goal conflict. I think that whenever and however you program charging windows, you cannot then also expect a target charge. What's the system supposed to do when at the end of the charging window the target charge is not reached? To my perception - disputed by some posts here -...

Gee, thanks. You are making me feel better. I was about to visit the optician because I cannot say that I have ever noticed the rear wheels stepping out. And my wife performs some amazing pirouettes with the car. But I shall look extra hard next time.

Hm. It seems to me that it does. If your SOC is 20% and your Timer wants 90% at 7am and a Profile specifies a charging window 22.00-23.00, the BMS will aim to assure that you have 90% at 7 am - by perhaps starting earlier than 22.00 and busting thru 23.00. FWIW, the manual states "If the...

I can't say that I follow. Since the Timer takes priority over the (location based) Profile, what does the Profile bring to the party?

I see. I have no experience with that. So perhaps the fuller explanation is that min equals max when there is no charging window? Seems odd.

You the man! Awesome. Turns out I have rear axle steering. Can't say I noticed. (And I have the 150kW option.)

Hm. Not my experience. I am trying to recall what happened when I did that. I think it simply ignored the end of the charging window. Is that what W1NGE referred to? (Does not look like it - his min charge is set to just 25%.) I can see why you might write this. If your min charge (is very high...

You mean when the Timer's target charge level cannot be attained within the Profile's charging window? It seems to me that OP should abandon the idea of limiting the charge to 85% and simply use a Profile. It is regrettable that a Profile does not allow the specification of a max SOC.

Is there a way to tell whether the car has the 150kW/400V option? In the UK, I understood the Tesla network to be covered under the Porsche Charging Service, so no Tesla membership required? But I need to bring along some adaptor? Thanks. (I have not been brave enough to try a Tesla charger.)

I noticed the same behaviour but what's the difference? Arguably, Tesla's preference for charging from the opening of the charging window is worse for the battery. The theory says that you want your battery 100% charged for the shortest possible time. Hence why Porsche use the end of the...