Speed Controllers - Making Sense Of It All

[Runsler]

Great thread, wish it would have been there a few months earlier so i could have used it^^

Maybe worth mentioning are these ESCs: http://www.robots.ib-fink.de/index.htm
Everything on the homepage is in german, but these are made specifically for fighting robots, and since each is made by hand, you could get customized ones or combinations of features... Plus a very detailed program available via USB to change a lot of parameters and including channel mixing if you want to drive with one stick (so they are dual), some version also including the possibility to attach two drive motors and one (brushed) weapon motor and/or valves for pneumatic stuff to it.
As far as i'm aware almost every roboteer in germany uses at least one of these in at least one of his bots.

Also, they have a fuse instead of current limiters. They had in earlier versions, but those tended to make the bots "stutter" in situations where stall currents occurred. So now... before you melt your ESC, you melt the fuse (but that would take some time), and can replace it cheap.