Hello,
I'm looking for your opinion on rated maximum voltage of the boot strap capacitor of a high-side mosfet driver.
In this example (classic) bootstrap circuit

from this link:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/87650/what-must-be-rated-maximum-voltage-of-the-boot-strap-capacitor-of-a-high-side-mothere is conclusion:
However, if your circuit shuts down with a load connected to the high voltage and source the cap will need to be rated at the full power rail because one side will be taken to the high power rail by the load and the other will decay to 0 volts.
No question about it that:
The reverse voltage rating on the diode needs to be at the full power rail by the way.
But, really do we need HV boot strap capacitor of a high-side mosfet driver?
Just put into simple circuit simulator 12Vcc and simulated overvoltage on half-bridge mosfet source in the middle with lets say 24V spike and no way there were no more than 12V on boost strap caps in high side


Update: Ups, probably on this optoisolated gate driver PSU (left battery) should be also power rail rated diode blocking possible higher voltage spikes througth zeners...
In this simple H-bridge I plan to use a few the same simply optocoupler insulated low speed low current gate drivers and 16V 100uF boost strap caps since I do not know

how is it possible that those caps will be charged to higher voltage than 12V since I've additional 12V zeners

Read quite nice intros howto calculate needed capacity, but there is nothing about boot strap capacitor rated maximum voltage
http://www.ixysic.com/home/pdfs.nsf/www/AN-400.pdf/$file/AN-400.pdf