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Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 2
Unfortunately it is very easy for a qualified technician to reverse the inlet and outlet couplings Intoxilyzer to wet-bath simulator.
Stephen Biss
Jan 13, 20234 min read
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Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 1
It is very easy for a qualified technician to accidentally flood the sample chamber on an Intoxilyzer 5000 (or 5000C) or an 8000 (or...
Stephen Biss
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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What is SCC: R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux "Reliability" in an Approved Intrument?
Please carefully re-read what the Supreme Court of Canada said about "reliability" in R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux. Please think about and...
Stephen Biss
Dec 14, 20221 min read
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What is Differential Voltage Monitoring (DVM) ?
Many years ago Ontario defence lawyers cross-examined breath techs on "how much room there was" on the particular Intoxilyzer 5000C to...
Stephen Biss
Dec 8, 20226 min read
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Ancient Egypt and DUI Metrology
If you served wine or beer at a pub in ancient Egypt the beverages were measured out using liquid volume instruments like these. Each...
Stephen Biss
Nov 23, 20224 min read
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Continuity: Write on Empty Bottle
Tip 35: The simplest method of communicating the last change date of the alcohol standard solution placed into the wet-bath simulator is...
Stephen Biss
Oct 26, 20222 min read
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Error in Facts - "Impaired Driving and Other Criminal Code Driving Offences", Jokinen and Keen
Does partial automation of error-checking in an approved instrument: specifically diagnostics tests, air blanks, cal. checks, and maximum...
Stephen Biss
Oct 19, 20227 min read
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Continuity: From the Box
Tip 37: Defence lawyers need to study the video - does the qualified technician take a random (unrelated to the matter before the Court)...
Stephen Biss
Oct 15, 20224 min read
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Continuity: Use of a Seal
Tip 38: One of the best ways to control wet-bath simulator alcohol standard continuity is to use alphanumeric police seals and record...
Stephen Biss
Oct 3, 20222 min read
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Continuity: Whiteboard or blackboard method
Tip 36: Some police detachments have been known to write the manufacturer name, lot number, name/badge of solution change officer,...
Stephen Biss
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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What is Purge Fail on an Intoxilyzer ?
What is a Purge Fail on an Intoxilyzer 8000C ? What is a Purge File on an Intoxilyzer 5000C ? How does this phenomenon affect reliability...
Stephen Biss
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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Appendix E: Location & Anecdotal Notes in Log
Tip 30: The CFS 8000C Training Aid of 2013 at page 191 of 238, Appendix "E" recommends that the Alcohol Standard Log, updated by the...
Stephen Biss
Sep 16, 20222 min read
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What is an Ambient Fail on an Intoxilyzer 8000C?
What does "ambient fail" or "ambient failed" mean on an Intoxilyzer 8000C? Watch the following video and ask yourself why the ambient...
Stephen Biss
Sep 13, 20221 min read
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What is an air blank on an Intoxilyzer 8000C?
What does an air blank look like on an Intoxilyzer 8000 or 8000C? What is a blank test? What is a system blank test? What does 000 mean...
Stephen Biss
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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Anecdotal Notes in Alcohol Standard Log
Tip 29: Obtain disclosure, of the full #duisimulator alcohol standard log, to search for anecdotal notes of difficulties experienced by...
Stephen Biss
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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Ambient Fail Threshold 5, 10, 19, 20 ?
We know that the ambient fail threshold (the mg% point at which the exception error is flagged) on both the Intoxilyzer 5000/5000C and...
Stephen Biss
Sep 7, 20223 min read
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Reliability: 64 in 2011 Ambient Threshold Changes, Elevated Zero, Purge Fail
This is the same Intoxilyzer® 64 with upgraded keyboard and (software) serial number depicted in the blog "Ambient Conditions Change...
Stephen Biss
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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Ambient Conditions Change Baseline 0 on an IR Breath instrument - Disappearing Alcohol
Experiment studying the phenomenon of disappearing alcohol It is easy to replicate this experiment on an Intoxilyzer® 5000. It is more...
Stephen Biss
Sep 2, 20222 min read
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Approved Instruments Order
Excerpt from Canada Regulations Approved Breath Analysis Instruments Order SI/85-201CRIMINAL CODE Registration 1985-11-27 Order Approving...
Stephen Biss
Sep 1, 20223 min read
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Reliability: Disabling Ambient Fail Exception, Making Alcohol Disappear
Tip 45: Study the breath room video and learn everything you can about the breath room and detachment. Watch for: Has the qualified...
Stephen Biss
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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