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Continuity of Alcohol Standard Solution: Keep from Freezing
Many years ago I asked for timely disclosure/production of a representative bottle of the alcohol standard lot used during the breath...
Stephen Biss
Dec 21, 20227 min read
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Reliability: Ambient Conditions
Tip 41: Changing breath room ambient conditions can reduce "system calibration check" and "system blank test" reliability. Any...
Stephen Biss
Nov 30, 20228 min read
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Study the Block Diagram in the Wet-Bath Simulator Manufacturer's Manual
Tip 25: Obtain a copy of the Guth Laboratories, Inc. wet-bath "Model 2100 Simulator Operation Manual" and study the "Model 2100-Block...
Stephen Biss
Nov 18, 20223 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: 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 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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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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Reliability: Cal Checks in the Context of Earlier & Later Ambient Fails
Tip 47: A calibration check using a wet-bath simulator containing alcohol standard is not reliable if information is missing about air...
Stephen Biss
Sep 2, 20222 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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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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Reliability: Air Blanks "System Blank Test"
Tip 43: A properly functioning approved instrument air blank system (including the instrument itself, the ambient environment around the...
Stephen Biss
Aug 28, 20225 min read
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Continuity: Outgoing = Incoming Seal Numbers
Tip 39: The key to usefulness of alphanumeric seals on a #duisimulator is whether or not the incoming seal number on the subsequent...
Stephen Biss
Jul 15, 20222 min read
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COBRA V and Hospital Change of Location
Warning: This blog entry was written prior to Bill C-46 during an era when forensic science in Ontario was more transparent. Prior to R....
Stephen Biss
Jun 17, 20224 min read
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Is it safe to assume that the target value of the alcohol standard was 100?
The video below displays a variety of alcohol standards that could be used in a #duisimulator for evidentiary breath testing for...
Stephen Biss
Jun 10, 20223 min read
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Continuity of the Alcohol Standard
Tip 34: The use of an alcohol standard during evidentiary breath testing in Canada was not mentioned in the Criminal Code as a condition...
Stephen Biss
May 28, 20224 min read
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