Need a new scanner...

I bought additional scanners from debug, too. I noticed my first household didn't get the option to ask about scanners anymore when I had my first. I thought it was capped at one scanner per household to prevent us circumventing the cooldown. But it seems we are only allowed a single scanner per save. Therefore my second team borrows the first team's scanner, but for my third team, that cannot borrow from the other two for backstory reasons, I had to resort to cheats.