I know that it is a 30mm by 4mm glass capusle with some electronics inside it.
But other than that I have no idea.
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So what is this?
Sep 08, 2016
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It looks like a pet microchip to me.
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Maybe it's um, "fitted", anally.
Looks like a coiled aerial and some components. RFID device? Could do without the curly grey pube though. ;-)
Tim
Looks like the chip from inside a car key albeit 2 times too big. How about an anti theft device for contractors plant?
AJH
Certinly looks like it
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It's an RFID transponder. Coil is energised by a near-field device, transponder sends it's ID to the energiser. Usually contained inside something like this :
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As others have said, looks like a low frequency transponder. TI do a
31x4 mm one:
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Did Toby get the rest of the apprentice?
It reminds me of an old style reed relay. Although I can't say why the coil is actually inside the glass envelope.
That was my first thought, and a similar reason for discounting it.
An interesting data sheet - thanks for the link. I see that although made of glass for biocompatibility, it will withstand 300g! It is also hermetically sealed. I wondered how it could be sealed (as it appears to be made completely of glass) without heat damaging the electronics inside. Answered at
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where it says the glass has a high iron content and can be sealed with a Nd:YAG laser. Obviously the iron content isn't high enough to interfere with the signal.
Is there a magnet-onna-spring inside that coil?
A North Korean version of one of those pills you swallow to take images as it passes through?
That is a MW AM antenna on a ferrite rod. Probably off an old pocket transistor radio.
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Might be if it was ferrite rather than glass, and the wires were wound round the outside rather than on the inside!
The ferrite rod is underneath the coiled wire.
To connect to the other two flux capacitors, you mean?
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