Is the Zener Voltage Across a Zener Diode Perfectly Constant?



The voltage across a zener does not remain perfectly constant as the zener current varies.

The reason is that all zeners have some value of zener impedance, designated RZ. RZ acts like a small resistance in series with the zener. The effect of RZ is that small changes in VZ will occur when IZ varies.

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