I bought one of these recently and finally have enough time on it to have an opinion.

Overall I like the ix8. For anyone on the fence I would feel comfortable recommending it so long as the unit they bought has the newest software already on it. Its very smooth and even though it doesnt have a ton of programming options it has what I would consider most important/useful and is pretty easy once you go through it once or twice. I like that it uses modular wiring so its easy to remove from the car.

I originally planned to run this on 2s in my scte but it had some issues with cogging and brown outs which I suspect were fixed in the latest software update. I chose to instead run this is my 1/8 scale buggy because I didnt want to buy yet another option piece just for functionality that it should have had in the first place.

I have also noticed that my temps are slightly higher than they were with my rx8 in the same car with the same setup. I figure thats because I was running the current limiter at 90%. I dont really notice a difference in performance, just temps.