User experience and review of steemit Power Down

The more established authors will know how it works, but I think there are plenty of steemers who never tried a power down. I was curious myself and still found contradictive articles claiming that is takes 104 weeks versus 13 weeks. I was curious what it takes to convert steem power in USD, so I tried and here is my experience with a few screenshots. I hardly had any activity in the last 3 weeks, so the balance of Steem power didn’t change much.
I started power down on September 14 by pressing the powerdown button in my wallet on a desktop computer (not available in eSteem on iOS).

From that moment I could see what happens on the steemit blockchain steemd.com. Here are the relevant screenshots:




And the the activity in excel is at the top of this article

So if I take these reimbursements and extrapolate, it will indeed take 13 weeks to redeem the full balance of Steem Power.
I transferred 50 Steem to my bittrex account with the account @bittrex and the memo given by bittrex (see screenshot below). The transfer happened in minutes and was free of charge.

The rough conclusion as of October 2017:

• Powerdown of steem power takes 13 weeks
• Reimbursements comes in 13 equal portions, starting after 1 week
• If required, you can withdraw the available steem to an exchange every week to convert to Fiat currency

As I’m content with that, I’m now powering up again :-)