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Hello Steemit Community I am Celebrating my one month on Steemit and also my birthday soon, and was wondering how to power down correctly.

I understand that you go to your wallet and click on your Steem Power and then power down
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Afterwards I received a notification stating that my power down has started and that the next one is in 7 days.  

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Out of curiosity and anxiousness I wanted to know how long this power down process takes and if anyone can ball park how much I will get in my first power down?