new brushless build questions fo xL motors

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I have ran 3 10L motors and 2 9L faegio motors for some time. I currently have a shulze 18.97 and 4 older hacker comps, I know the controllers are 1200 watt controllers, and I have seen alot of speculation of how manny watts a xl8 could use. I want to take the plunge into an xl can, but am teribly afraid of popping a controlers. I have faithfully used my controllers for some time and although I got my money's worth out of them, I would still like to keep them for alot longer.

the truck I am building is a hybrid, I am using flm hybrid bulks and a chain drive trans out of a Twinforce, and slapping them on a torpedo chassi with twinforce batt cages slung under. so the gear ratio would be of a stock twinforce

I have ate up manny e-maxx trans and only have 2 sets of ultramaxx gear sets for me to run, one is on my brushless g2r revo, and the other is on my dual 9l race bomb e-maxx. So I am left with the best trans ever made a twinforce chain drive
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I already have a Twin force with 10L with hackercomp, and its the ultimate brushless truck. The drive train is indistructable with tcd diffs and the trans
so I know it will hold up to a coke can motor like 22 series
HTTP://users.adelphia.net/~tjjohnson2/twinmovie.wmv

but the big question is, if I worry too much about my current controllers taking on an XL can should I just buy another controller. I would like to have another with some heft to it for other projects. Something like a 2000 watt controller. but nothing like a shulze 36.160 that is 650$, I only have a budget of 300$ for controller and 100 for motor. I have my eye on a 9xl or 8 xl, but I can only run 14 cells so I am leaning to the 8xl, but I know a 9xl is easier on the controller. I dunno, big delima,

I do know I am going to run a 10L and shulze in the truck initaly, but I have come accustom to the torque dually BL mosters I have built in the past. But to keep down weight and cell count, I would like to see what the xl can has to offer