Re: Help differentiating/identifying capacitor types
105 will give you longer life. Important for me because I am not going to need to replace them again. It's like my cousin told me, a roofer asked him if he wanted 20 year shingles or 25. He said at the time he thought about it," let's see, I'm 78 now, so..." He said "Give me the 20 year." He'll be 83 this year and the shingles are doing fine.
Another thought is what if they come up with some totally different capacitor in the next 10 years and discontinue these old style ones. They may not be physically compatible. These kids today are going to look back on smd's with fondness and tell their grandchildren, "Yeah, we used to cook our circuit boards in the oven, don't need to do that anymore though".
105 will give you longer life. Important for me because I am not going to need to replace them again. It's like my cousin told me, a roofer asked him if he wanted 20 year shingles or 25. He said at the time he thought about it," let's see, I'm 78 now, so..." He said "Give me the 20 year." He'll be 83 this year and the shingles are doing fine.
Another thought is what if they come up with some totally different capacitor in the next 10 years and discontinue these old style ones. They may not be physically compatible. These kids today are going to look back on smd's with fondness and tell their grandchildren, "Yeah, we used to cook our circuit boards in the oven, don't need to do that anymore though".
On the other hand, there's a reasonably good chance that 105C general-purpose caps might be rated for higher ripple-currents than an 85C same value/voltage one, but you'd have to check datasheets for that 
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