Spec me a breathalyser kit please

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

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This is something I have wanted to experiment with for a long time and I know 3 of my Copper mates spent a weekend testing themselves on a course.
I want to drink a pint and test
Drink another and test and so on up until about 5 pints - my limit.
I then want to see how long it then takes to come down to under 35.
I don't want to spend too much so perhaps somebody here has already got one they can recommend.

Just so you know I never drink and drive.

Now my new found interest is a friend of a friend who was still 3.5 over the limit after an 8 hour sleep.
If it tales 1 hour to remove 1 unit that was some heavy drinking.

www.stokesentinel.co.uk

Drink-driving NHS worker crashed car after end of boozy all-inclusive holiday

Now Victoria Harvey has been banned from the roads
www.stokesentinel.co.uk www.stokesentinel.co.uk
 
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I misread the OP as 3.5 mg over the limit not 3.5 times the limit!

anyway from the article:

returned home to Longton in the early hours after 'drinking far too much' while abroad. The 48-year-old then had a vodka before going to bed.
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She said she did not feel drunk or over the legal limit.....she was breathalysed and gave a reading of 127 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, more than three-and-a-half times the legal limit
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Sounds like your colleague has a problem and needs to be encouraged to seek help :(
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Now if this is accurate that's more like it.
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Do you need really accurate or just consistent? As you’re not using it to determine when you’re actually going to be able to drive, I reckon consistency is the most important thing. As long as each measurement is in a correct proportion to the previous measurement, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little bit off.

Could be an interesting experiment, I might do something similar.
 
If and when you buy, beg, borrow or steal a current kit try this. Pop half a dozen very well oxidised cupro nickel UK coins in your mouth, (half pennies or pennies), roll them around in your mouth with your tongue at least 60 seconds before testing and compare the result to a similar amount of imbibed alcohol without doing this.

I remember picking my late father up from Stockport nick when the rozzers called me. They said he seemed paralytic but tested on the high side of negative. They were wanting to call an ambulance but he insisted he was fine. A few weeks later he told me the wheeze.... There was a time when the Netherlands sold an adhesive strip to stick behind your teeth that was heavily impreganated with something like deactivated charcoal. It worked so dreadfully badly it was quietly banned from sale in in the UK, I believe :)

Out here in the sticks no one seems to bother about D&D anyway...
 
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Feek said:
Do you need really accurate or just consistent? As you’re not using it to determine when you’re actually going to be able to drive, I reckon consistency is the most important thing. As long as each measurement is in a correct proportion to the previous measurement, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little bit off.

Could be an interesting experiment, I might do something similar.
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You have a point but I was also thinking after watching some You Tube videos that it would be good to have them nearly accurate.
There was a Fifth Gear video where they used a Police one showing 39, a model that was also 39 but then one that was 27, if you had trusted that coming out of a pub you'd be over.
The accurate one was an Alcosense and I can get the Pro for £50.
 
Feek said:
The Pro for fifty quid? Where from?
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Marketplace, obviously you take a risk but I've never been let down on there.
I bought a guitar amp the other week from Weston Super Mare.

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Both are still available, both got straight back to me.

I've downloaded the manual from here - https://alcosense.co.uk/alcosense-pro-support.html and very surprised to see we have the highest allowed in the World, well on that list in the manual.
 
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I've had an alcosence a few years now and find it says I'm OK in the mornings after drinking when there is no way I would drive.
I know I'm very over cautious about driving the next day as my job depends on it but its quite surprising.
You have to wait 30 mins at least after drinking to use it or it will knacker it and also needs sent back to calibrate the fuel cell every year.
 
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