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@cjack posted:

Actually brand new in the box can also mean that it's never been back to Lionel to have a modification made to the Cab2 and never had a charging mod made to the base.

I recently picked up a v1.0 #990 Legacy command set.  Lionel gave me an RMA to upgrade it no questions asked. 

What exactly is the charging mod?

@EJN posted:

I notice on Charles Ro website this pm they are accepting backorders for the cab2 remote and charge base package.  I thought the handheld was dead.

L14294 - #993 LEGACY EXPANSION SET (3dcartstores.com)

Good catch! These were completely removed from the website a few weeks ago.

I'm not sure what changed, but at least the $449 is more reasonable than the $650+ that 993s are going for on ebay.

Rick,

I wonder if that's the final order coming from overseas, found US based stock or new production order based on higher msrp.

Being they are a major dealer maybe its a market test to see how much back order interest there is.  I would expect other L dealers to start listing for sale if this is new price level Lionel supply chain can work with.

@rplst8 posted:

So I sent my unit in requesting an upgrade from v1.0 to v1.7 which was done.  Is there a way to tell if the charging circuit was updated as well?

Unless your **** bent on having the charging feature. It's just as easy to turn off the base charger and grab yourself an external charger with extra batteries on Amazon.

I never bothered to see if my base charger even works. I don't like the idea of leaving it on all the time. My base is unplugged when not running trains.

This seems like cheap insurance from damage caused by a power surge or possible component failure from simply being on 24/7. Especially  now more than ever. Since these bases are discontinued.

@RickO posted:

Unless your **** bent on having the charging feature. It's just as easy to turn off the base charger and grab yourself an external charger with extra batteries on Amazon.

I never bothered to see if my base charger even works. I don't like the idea of leaving it on all the time. My base is unplugged when not running trains.

This seems like cheap insurance from damage caused by a power surge or possible component failure from simply being on 24/7. Especially  now more than ever. Since these bases are discontinued.

I just leave it on plugged into a timer set to one hour after using it.

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