The setup I have is circa 1980 - Futaba Tx, Rx, AND servos too > ALL from the early 80's! No kidding! And to top it off, they were ALL swapped around between the plane (the Falcon I have) and the Hirobo Shuttle heli (that I also have) regularly depending on what my father-in-law felt like flying that day. I even managed a perfect "3 point landing" in the top of a 60' pinetree with that same Rx strapped into it and it had to stay up there for 3 days while we put together a pvc pole long enough to knock it down. And even after 3 days of weather, it still works like a champ!

So, and this is just my opinion, Futaba receivers and servos are built like bricks!!!! After 30 years of flying usage and NUMEROUS crashes and it stuff STILL works ????? Hey, that makes me a Futaba customer for LIFE I have been told by many veteran pilots, that JR equipment is better on many different levels (especially when controlling Giant scale craft; the people I know like the response time and torque better than the Futaba servos; I don't know what the "specs" say for each, this is just what they've expressed to me), but for my application -> "trainer" planes, I'm sold on them

This is just my experience with Futaba equipment and swapping equipment from plane to plane and from plane to heli; NO problems AT ALL. I do try to be somewhat careful on installing and removing the connectors, there's no point in causing damage due to "rough handling" and I can see where that may cause problems with connection shorts. So far I haven't seen those issues, but like I said, I'm pretty careful when I connect everything up.