sustaining voltage, collector-emitter, resistance between base and emitter (V_CER(sus))

The collector-emitter breakdown voltage at relatively high values of collector current at which the breakdown voltage is relatively insensitive to changes in collector current, when the base terminal is, respectively,

• open-circuited.
• short-circuited to the emitter terminal.
• returned to the emitter terminal through a specified circuit.
• returned to the emitter terminal through a specified resistance.
• returned to the emitter terminal through a specified voltage.

NOTE This is the transient voltage between the collector and emitter terminals during switching with an inductive load from a forward-biased base-emitter to one of the external conditions described above.

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