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You have asked a couple of excellent questions. The first is if the quality is good, I believe that the caps are better. The second I have no answer. From my 40+years of experience in electronics, electrolytic capacitors can be a finicky component. I have tube equipment that go back to late sixties that never had any service and work fine. And then there were new solid state amps that the cap blew it's top. The bottom line is quality components and good design. It would not surprise me my friend, if you get another 12 years out of your old transmitter.Are modern capacitors made better than the ones in old tube equipment? Is the shelf life longer?
At the rate the things are advancing in the RC brushless motor field, these only need to live for a few years before the controller will be replaced due to obsolescence, or the need to have the latest and greatest.
In the RC club I belong to I get picked on for running a 12 year old transmiter.