The need for hot insertion capability has dramatically increased due to the demand of reducing system down time and portability. The effect of hot insertion is an inrush current or surge current which is produced when any uncharged capacitors are connected to a power supply. The larger the capacitors, the more energy is needed to charge them. Inrush current can cause the voltage of the power supply to droop to a level where system logic can be confused. This application note describes one of the techniques to minimize the inrush current to allow the user to utilize bulk capacitors of any size for hot insertion applications. In addition, with this solution the user does not have to wait for a long period of time between multiple insertions.