Allen Johnson DQ'd? - Page 2

Myron Piatek · 09-18-2010, 04:01 PM

There is a little more insight on breathalizer readings posted by Jared Jordan on a moparts.com thread.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...gonew=1#UNREAD

bigshow2966 · 09-18-2010, 04:06 PM

Saw elsewhere he admitted to having 11 hours between dinner and the test. The body will drop the BAC about .02 an hour. That means he was at around .25 last night.

Stephen & Horace Johnson · 09-18-2010, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Superfan1

It depends on how late the dinner was and how many drinks he considers "a few". In order to blow an .027 this morning, either he had many drinks with dinner, or he drank shortly before the test.

i agree......my thing is why risk it??

Ed Wright · 09-18-2010, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Superfan1

It depends on how late the dinner was and how many drinks he considers "a few". In order to blow an .027 this morning, either he had many drinks with dinner, or he drank shortly before the test.

Thanks Bill. I never drank, so never been tested, so did not know enogh to comment.

Myron Piatek · 09-18-2010, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by bigshow2966

Saw elsewhere he admitted to having 11 hours between dinner and the test. The body will drop the BAC about .02 an hour. That means he was at around .25 last night.

How close are the readings typically between a blood/alcohol (BAC?) test and a breathalizer?

Jared Jordan · 09-18-2010, 05:07 PM

They're very close. A breath testing machine measures deep lung alcohol. One of the ways that your body burns off alcohol is through the tissue at the bottom of your lungs. To get a good sample, you have to exhale completely. The machine takes the alcohol it detects in the lungs via a fuel cell. When alcohol hits the fuel cell it converts into electricity from which the machine calculates a blood-alcohol content based on an assumed partition ratio (lot of argument about whether this is fair if anyone's interested in some extra reading).

Not sure how the private firm does it, but in order for the BAC results of a breach machine to be admitted in California courts, they have to be calibrated every 10 days or 150 test subjects, whichever is reached first. Some states also allow you to have an extra sample retained (blood usually) if you want to have an independent laboratory do the testing.

In short, these machines are extremely accurate. Dead nuts.

John Leichtamer Jr · 09-18-2010, 05:41 PM

I wonder if they ever tested Compton in the morning?????

Hammer

Jim Cimarolli · 09-18-2010, 05:46 PM

Jared,

Just for grins I'd like to sit down in front of one of them machines with a quart of rot gut whiskey and just see how much I could drink before I blew over the limit!

Chad Rhodes · 09-18-2010, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by John Leichtamer Jr

I wonder if they ever tested Compton in the morning?????

Hammer

yea right.

X-TECH MAN · 09-18-2010, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by John Leichtamer Jr

I wonder if they ever tested Compton in the morning?????

Hammer

LOL............Do the machines read that high?

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bigshow2966 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: chicago Posts: 650 Likes: 652 Liked 124 Times in 52 Posts	Re: Allen Johnson DQ'd? Saw elsewhere he admitted to having 11 hours between dinner and the test. The body will drop the BAC about .02 an hour. That means he was at around .25 last night.

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Jared Jordan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Modesto, CA Posts: 608 Likes: 188 Liked 498 Times in 114 Posts	Re: Allen Johnson DQ'd? They're very close. A breath testing machine measures deep lung alcohol. One of the ways that your body burns off alcohol is through the tissue at the bottom of your lungs. To get a good sample, you have to exhale completely. The machine takes the alcohol it detects in the lungs via a fuel cell. When alcohol hits the fuel cell it converts into electricity from which the machine calculates a blood-alcohol content based on an assumed partition ratio (lot of argument about whether this is fair if anyone's interested in some extra reading). Not sure how the private firm does it, but in order for the BAC results of a breach machine to be admitted in California courts, they have to be calibrated every 10 days or 150 test subjects, whichever is reached first. Some states also allow you to have an extra sample retained (blood usually) if you want to have an independent laboratory do the testing. In short, these machines are extremely accurate. Dead nuts. __________________ Jared Jordan 9 B/SA 2024 Jeg's D7 All Star - Stock Last edited by Jared Jordan; 09-18-2010 at 05:10 PM.

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Jim Cimarolli Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sulphur Springs Texas Posts: 741 Likes: 144 Liked 166 Times in 46 Posts	Re: Allen Johnson DQ'd? Jared, Just for grins I'd like to sit down in front of one of them machines with a quart of rot gut whiskey and just see how much I could drink before I blew over the limit!