# A guide how to chill and restore a validator

In order to stop the validator you need to submit and sign the transaction of the chillMe extrinsic. 
The validator cant stop itself immediately and needs to wait a specified amount of time before going down.
The "ChillTerm" period is specified in the runtime configuration. [View runtime lib.rs](../runtime/src/lib.rs)

![validator.substrateValidatorSet.chillMe.png](pictures/validator.substrateValidatorSet.chillMe.png)


For going back online there is the restore() extrinsic

![validator.substrateValidatorSet.restore.png](pictures/validator.substrateValidatorSet.restore.png)