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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You need to wait a period of time before turning it back on to allow any capacitors (circuitry that holds power) to fully discharge. This is important in devices that store temporary instructions in volatile flash memory because information is only stored in this memory when the memory has power. When the memory loses power, the memory clears and whatever instructions that were causing a problem will be gone.

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