ELi5: Why do you need to wait 10 seconds to power cycle certain electronics?

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ELi5: Why do you need to wait 10 seconds to power cycle certain electronics?

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Lots of power supplies use capacitors for filtering amongst other things. They need to bleed down their stored charge otherwise the power reset may not be effective. 10 seconds is insufficient in many cases in my experience.

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