System having an electronic component , - the electronic component comprising a multiplicity of functional layers which are arranged one on top of the other to form a stack, first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes , wherein each of the first and second internal electrodes is arranged between two adjacent functional layers , wherein the first internal electrodes are connected in an electrically conductive fashion to a first external contact of the electronic component , and the second internal electrodes are connected in an electrically conductive fashion to a second external contact of the electronic component , wherein the functional layers are selected such that the first and second external contacts are connected to one another in an electrically conductive fashion via the functional layers both in a basic state, that is to say an unloaded state in which no electrical power is applied to the electronic component at room temperature, and in a hot state of the electronic component , that is to say at a temperature which is higher than that of the electronic component in the basic state, wherein the nominal resistance of the electronic component is between 10 mΩ and 25 mΩ, and wherein the electronic component is an NTC component, - the system also comprising a consumer device which is connected electrically in series with the electronic component and is subjected, together with the electronic component , to an ambient temperature, wherein the system is embodied in such a way that the heating time, that is to say the time in which the switch-on current of the consumer device heats the electronic component to a steady-state temperature and the electronical start-time of the consumer device which determines when the switch-on current has dropped to the nominal current of the consumer device are in a ratio of between 0.5 and 1.5 to one another. - the electronic component comprising a multiplicity of functional layers which are arranged one on top of the other to form a stack, first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes , wherein each of the first and second internal electrodes is arranged between two adjacent functional layers , wherein the first internal electrodes are connected in an electrically conductive fashion to a first external contact of the electronic component , and the second internal electrodes are connected in an electrically conductive fashion to a second external contact of the electronic component , wherein the functional layers are selected such that the first and second external contacts are connected to one another in an electrically conductive fashion via the functional layers both in a basic state, that is to say an unloaded state in which no electrical power is applied to the electronic component at room temperature, and in a hot state of the electronic component , that is to say at a temperature which is higher than that of the electronic component in the basic state, wherein the nominal resistance of the electronic component is between 10 mΩ and 25 mΩ, and wherein the electronic component is an NTC component, - the system also comprising a consumer device which is connected electrically in series with the electronic component and is subjected, together with the electronic component , to an ambient temperature, wherein the system is embodied in such a way that the heating time, that is to say the time in which the switch-on current of the consumer device heats the electronic component to a steady-state temperature and the electronical start-time of the consumer device which determines when the switch-on current has dropped to the nominal current of the consumer device are in a ratio of between 0.5 and 1.5 to one another. <EOS>