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@Long Hair posted:

I would add the Bluetooth range issue.  For the home user, Bluetooth is the wave of the future.  However, Lionel can't have their club users following their locomotives around a club-sized layout to keep Bluetooth in range.  Some customers really need a locomotive that runs LC at home but conventional or TMCC on the road.  Enter LC plus and 2.0.

Well, not a wave in my future!  The range isn't even useful for a fairly small 12 x 24 layout, when I walk a few feet from the end, the phone drops the connection.  The universal remote has to be within 10-12 feet of the engine!  This is for LC+ and LC+ 2.0 stuff.  In an odd twist, the remote that came with my one LC+ locomotive does much better than Bluetooth or the Universal remote.  Since that's the one locomotive I converted to battery power, that's a good thing, the remote is the only way to run it on battery!

I'll be using TMCC with any LC+ 2.0 stuff I get in the future.

IMO, yes, LC+ is dead, long live LC+ 2.0!

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