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How does a scanner work, for a microchip?

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Bumpurr

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Purred: Thu Feb 9, '12 3:17pm PST


	I know an organization, has to buy the scanner, and they run it across the back of the pet, similiar to your products being scanned at a grocery store, and it registeres, with the microchip #. But what actually powers the scanner. Does it run on batteries, is it plugged in, similiar to a cell phone. Is the organization charged, each time they scan a pet. Got into a discussion, with a co worker, who 99.9999% of the time, is right. This time I think, he is wrong. He said, the organization, is charged, each time, they scan a pet. So, how does it actually work?

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Purred: Thu Feb 9, '12 5:28pm PST


	The scanners I've seen are battery powered (no plugs.) Basically, the scanner sends a RF signal to the microchip, and the microchip sends back the ID number. I do not know of any that charge for using the scanner, I don't see how they could charge? All the scanner is doing is basically "reading" the number that is on the microchip. If this is a lost pet, the person then has to look up that number to find out who the pet belongs to.