Breathalyzers have become popular for home and personal usages in recent years. People are using them as gadgets at parties or for more serious use to check their blood alcohol levels before driving. But these devices are far from perfect and should not be trusted blindly. We’ll give you a few examples of what can cause false readings in this article.<\/p>\n
The most obvious reason to why you’re getting false readings from your device is a lack of calibration. Breathalyzers are sensitive and needs to be calibrated on a regular basis to give correct results.<\/p>\n
The cheapest models of breathalyzers are more inaccurate for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that they will not only register alcohol, but also substances that are similar in molecular substance.<\/p>\n
In some cases, people have natural compounds in their breaths that will interfer with the registration of the blood alcohol level. One example of such is that dieters or people with diabetes often have a higher concentration of acetone in their breath. This will register in the breathalyzer, giving a false positive.<\/p>\n
Breathalyzers don’t really measure the blood alcohol level. The devices measure the amount of alchol in your breath. The difference between the two could be quite large, and if the breathalyzer is used after drinking a beverage with strong alcoholic content, the difference will be substantial.<\/p>\n
This brings us into another source of error: testing during the absorptive phase. This will give a reading higher than what the actual blood alcohol level is.<\/p>\n
These blood alcohol level measuring devices are smart ways to check if you’re fit to drive. But don’t rely blindly on the results, as the sources of false readings are many, as we have shown you.<\/p>\n
In the end, the smartest way to make sure you don’t get in your car under the influence is to wait a few extra hours. Ask yourself, is it really worth it?<\/p>\n
Learn more about BACTRACK breathalyzer<\/a>. You should also stop by Will Stone’s site where you can read all hisbreathalyzer reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breathalyzers have become popular for home and personal usages in recent years. People are using them as gadgets at parties or for more serious use to check their blood alcohol levels before driving. But these devices are far from perfect and should not be trusted blindly. We’ll give you a few examples of what can cause false readings in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[414],"tags":[11386,3093,15494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11516,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions\/11516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}