Only one EV charger at home?!

You may need to delve deeper into how efficient the actual chargers are to get a real answer to this. It sounds like a cludge to me. Obviously both outputs need to be completely separate and I certainly don't know how much of the charge rate processing is done in a charger, and how much in the car. Brian

Not sure what you're getting at, but they draw off a 32A circuit. Clearly you can fit two or even three 32A circuits in a 100A supply.

The most common UK domestic contract is for a 17kVA supply.

Bollocks. 240V, 100A. Never seen anything else.

And two 7s still fit in 17.

There are also 80A and 60A main breakers, but the limit to what you can draw is not what the circuit is rated for, but what your contract with the electricity supply company specifies you can have.

Not with a great deal to spare for other uses.

Do you have some kind of hardware enforcing the limit?

For instance, in Spain the smart meter triggers if you draw above your contract and switches off the whole house. In older times, there was an electromagnetic current limiter switch, installed with an anti tamper lead seal, which of course, was tampered with. Which is a reason they installed smart meters in the whole country real fast.

The typical contract here for a flat is 3.6 KW. I think the max is around 15 or 18.

Although that may be true the master fuse is typically one of 60A, 80A or most recently 100A depending on the age of the property or whether the master fusing has been upgraded to cope with an electric car.

My domestic mains is 60A or ~14kW. Some neighbours are on 40A ~10kW. Three phase is not available in my village.

It may amuse some to know that my MP who is also now our UK PM and incredibly rich had to have the local electricity network upgraded to power his swimming pool which will cost £13k/year to heat.

I didn't work in the Commercial section, which was responsible for the meter and company fuses, so I don't know whether there was a limiter. As the standing charges were based upon the contracted supply, I assume there must have been some way to enforce it.

In theory, the meter reader was supposed to check the lead seals on every visit, but it wasn't often done in practice unless the property was flagged as needing particular attention.

Upgrading the fuse, ROTFPMSL! It's the wires which count. The fuse is whatever you put in it.

How thick is the incoming wire?

He's a f****ng Paki.

Hasn't he heard of insulation?

Why not just run them colder?

If I owned a public swimming baths, I'd divide it up. You pay more for the warmer sections. And you get in free if you're naked.

Change the breaker then (actually it's a Henley fuse). The only limit is the thickness of the wire coming into your house. There is nothing in any contract saying please don't use more than x amps.

Then don't use those when you need to charge two cars.

I take it you have cold showers.

Just how do you plan to charge an electric car?

There isn't. The meters only monitor how much you've used, not how fast you were using it.

They want you to use more, so they make more money!

You can buy lead seals on Ebay.

And lots of older properties, notably in rural areas where a single pair of L+N cables supplies a pair of houses and they are divided on the front wall of the properties. I suspect these properties cannot have storage heaters or an EV.

There isn't. The meters only monitor how much you've used, not how fast you were using it.

They want you to use more, so they make more money!

You can buy lead seals on Ebay.

There isn't. The meters only monitor how much you've used, not how fast you were using it.

They want you to use more, so they make more money!

You can buy lead seals on Ebay.

You overdo it until the wire burns out, then they come replace it with something bigger.

That is a mere assumption on your part.

'They' don't want anybody to exceed the capacity of the incomer.

The seals were never a problem. Having the right impression on them was.

We're talking about domestic premises. Funnily enough I have a domestic premises.

My point exactly, the wire is what matters, not the fuse or contract.

Ah, they don't do that in the UK. In the USA, they actually put a number inside them. Probably easy enoguh to make one, it's just a bit of yellow paper.