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.

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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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Mr Badger said:
But it's not drinking and driving if you have blown under the limit.
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Of course it is, I will still have alcohol in my body and it's something I won't do if I'm driving.
This breathalyser is for an experiment and it doesn't have to be highly accurate, I'm sure I mentioned that above.
I want to try it on both me and the wife and I'll be selling it on.
It isn't to take out with me to a pub because I'll be on diet coke
 
pastymuncher said:
Not everyone is going to sober up at the same rate and even the same person will see different results depending on what they have eaten etc.

I dislike these things. If anybody has had any alcohol at all they should not be driving. My opinion is that the limit should be zero.
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Back in the 90s I had 3x Traffic Cop mates and I was out with them one night.
We got in the car and I had a go at Dave the driver saying he should be disgusted with himself because he's had 6 pints and he'd be way over.
An argument ensued he he gave his keys to Sarge and said get my spare breathalyser out the boot in my kit bag.
He blew under the limit and I was gobsmacked.
He said in the peak fitness condition he was in he knew he could have 6 pints and not be over however earlier that year when he was on the sick for 3 months he could only have two.
This is when they told me they had official weekends away to test breathalysers by drinking/testing/recovering and it's something I've always wanted to try.

I also remember a Nicky Campbell documentary where he waited outside pubs for drinkers to come out but none of them were going to drive.
He asked one bloke how many drinks he had and he said 4 pints of carling so he asked the bloke if he thought he was over to which he laughed and said no.
He blew around 78 and argued about it.
A woman came out and she had drunk around 8 vodka & tonics (or similar) so he asked the same question.
She said I'm way over, I can hardly see.
She blew under.
 
It's arrived

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Four pints of Guinness, by the fourth there was no way I could drive.
I'm going to send it for recalibration.

19:50:00mg/LStarted
01/11/202320:28:006First pint finished at 8pm
01/11/202321:04:0010Second pint
01/11/202321:15:0021Third pint
01/11/202321:43:0018Fourth Pint finished
01/11/202322:18:0026
01/11/202322:31:0024
01/11/202322:45:0023
01/11/202323:30:0018
02/11/202300:22:0013
02/11/202310:31:000
 
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Orangeade said:
Guinness is **** weak (tasty though) I would have thought 4 would easily be doable. You also drank 4 over 2 hours? So lots wasn't in system and lots had already been processed?
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I drank 4 from 7:50 and finished at 9:45 so 5 mins short of 2 hours.
At 4.1% it's 0.1 more than Carling wife beater so it's not that weak.

Mr Badger said:
Are you expecting to score at least 35 if you feel you have drunk enough to be over the legal limit for driving?

What was the actual abv% and quantity of the Guinness you drank? A 568ml pint is not the same as a 440ml can.
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I'm not a drinker so I can't take as much as professionals :)
However Guinness doesn't seem to have much effect on me even when it's pints.
A can is 440ml at 4.1% ABV
A quick workout means I should drink 5 cans to equal 4 pints (nearly).

Now if I tried it on 4 bottles of Dog I'd be on my back.
 
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