Reply to "Improving range of LionCheif with Bluetooth locomotives?"

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@greg773 posted:
My club recently picked up several Bluetooth Lionchief sets to run at our Open House. They will be running on a 35'x85' layout. I found that if the train gets just slightly too far from the Universal Remote or the Ipad running the Lionchief App the train stops and goes into the "chirping" mode.
There is one spot in the center of the layout that has the range to connect all around the layout but it is unfortunatly no where near the switch control panel. I do realize that these are designed to be run on a small home layout. But, is there anything that can/has been done to add extra range to the locomotives?

This response will not be helpful…the small range is due to the limits of older Bluetooth system. The new Bluetooth 5.0 has a working range of over 100 foot. Lionel has been converting its most popular Bluetooth items over to 5.0 for the past two catalogs,

1/23/2210:17 AM

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