You guys missed the:

Active Scanner
&
Repair Tool

Both of which should have a Scan Profile of 100 dB while active.

Active scanner makes sense, repair tool has no more reason for high profile when active than does, well anything within the light or heavy weapon lines.

Hello, and I am in disagreement about the physical "visibility" of a piece of equipment. Especially an uplink.

It is a powerful controller of access and movement around the map. So destroying it should be essential to an opponent, and also be an electronic challenge to the opponent---but not naturally camouflaged or "cloaked", or minimized visibly from what they are now.

If the idea is to SKILL into using these powerful pieces, then there needs to be a challenge to placing them on the map. Being able to "shlop" it down and expect it to "not be detected" (just because I ran seven feet behind a big boulder) is not the best thinking. Part of the frustration expressed by players here is spamming, but part of the frustration is also that many of the uplink-carriers are sloppy or not as skillful as they think they are PLACING the uplink.

I wouldn't want to see the uplink made smaller or less visible in order to help poor placement. The result may accidentally encourage MORE "shlopping it down" without practice or enough skill----while at the opponent's end of things, we who have a hard enough time finding enemy uplink that ARE well-placed, will be distracted and fed up spending overtime to visually locate a "newer, even less see-able version".

I am all for reducing an equipment piece's ELECTRONIC detection by an enemy (especially as a means of progressing to higher tier models), but I fear any thoughts of reducing the oppotunity to find it with the Mark-1 EYEBALL.
Really, Rattati, as long as the uplink is placed with enough "extra practice", it isn't detected by almost anybody (just those of us who deduce there must be an uplink planted here somewhere and scours around for it).

It's that "extra practice" that I'd like to see remain as a requirement for using uplinks.

Except that the Repair Tool has infinite uses, giving it a Scan Profile penalty would give it a drawback without directly influencing its capabilities.

Most light and heavy weapons have effectively infinite uses (most players do not actually exhaust their full ammunition compliment prior to death), and the Nova Knives have literally infinite uses.

Further weapons of all types have no cap, cool down, or clause placed upon their earnings while the repair tool most certainly does.

Saying that the repair tool should have a higher sig profile than the flaylock, forge gun, mass driver or swarm launcher, "because ammo" is deeply arbitrary. There are no prior mechanics to suggest such a correlation. Further the OP asked about specific gear in a specific context, yes the scanner and rep tool are both "equipment" but they are no more like the listed equipment, and no more relevant to the topic of the OP than the shotgun is to a thread about laser rifle balance - even though they are both light weapons.