[Jared Russell]

I have lost count of the number of times I have helped teams debug their robots and found issues with how they had attached to their screw terminals, or had totally removed a screw and let debris fall in. The integrated pigtails are a great solution to this problem and will let teams find a connector that works for them while leaving all internal circuitry of the controller hermetically sealed.

Sure, some small percentage of speed controllers may have their leads compromised by being eaten by a mechanism (or being clipped by an overzealous freshman), but the cost reduction more than compensates for this.