The delay is 11 cycles, so up to 11 min at a 60 s cycle. A loop that loses the wire again within 11 cycles is never counted; review measured one such case (N=2, cheap-window charge, no forecast, house just over the rating). The over-rating rule applies on cycles the loop decided. Text only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bdqr7PiaHcBnzPituu2yTC