if you have an issue with something powered by electricity, why do you need to count till 5/10 when you unplug/turn off power before restarting it?

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if you have an issue with something powered by electricity, why do you need to count till 5/10 when you unplug/turn off power before restarting it?

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ELI5:

There’s these little *batteries* called *capacitors* that hold electricity. The *capacitor, like a battery,* is like a Jug of water with a hole on the bottom.

When the device is plugged into the wall, the jug of water gets filled with a *liiiiittle* more water than it loses, but when the device gets unplugged, the Jug loses it’s water not all at once, but rather slowly.

In this case, the jug is the capacitor, the water is the flow of electricity.

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