Ok, I can't get any of the semiconductor designs to work good enough for me. The following setup has nothing to do with the circuit from last year:
How about a MCU + relay based solution ?
- 2 - 10 - [100A (transitory from cold light bulbs)] through relay contacts
- sealed relay, 3ms operate time, unknown bounce time
- relay will operate very close to its 105 deg C limit several weeks per year
- relay will spend most of its life in its normally closed position; perhaps it can get stuck closed over the years ?
- a regular 6.6 kW TVS placed after the relay will take care of the first 10-20 ms of the load dump spike
MCU interrupts as the voltage reaches a certain threshold; afterwards interrupt every 100 us or so and measure voltage until maybe 1ms. Should the voltage be consistently rising in the 15V - 25V range then decide a load dump is going on (and not one of the faster and repetitive transients) and actuate that relay, opening the circuit. Does this sound like it could work ?
Thanks