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Old 02-07-2023, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by photo1902 View Post
Simply not true. They’re assigned to a homeowner(s), and are uniquely linked to them. That’s why you have to bring in remaining gate cards if one is lost or stolen.
So, if you make a cloned chip, you need to make it using your own resident card. Otherwise, they could deactivate your cloned chip by deactivating the resident card from which it was made, in which case, your resident card would still work, but the chip would not.