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And the OP assumes that once 'off' has been achieved that "on" is always a possibility.

Or that to do this is a simple operation with no other side-effects. As one of the other comments here points out, power-cycling is probably acceptable for consumer products, but with systems that are more mission-critical, should really be closer to a last-resort method.



Chernobyl started with them 'power cycling' the reactor, an on-off-on test for a backup system. It did not go well.




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