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Video 14

Original66 0578a - RFI Causing Phantom Alcohol During B - INVALID SAMPLE, 0, 18, 13, 7, INVALID SAMPLE

Please note that this instrument twice erroneously displayed an "INVALID SAMPLE" (mouth alcohol detection) error message as a result of RFI but did not display an "RFI interference" error message. On other occasions, the instrument erroneously displayed a BAC analysis with no "RFI Interference" error message.

Subject with zero BAC. Intoxilyzer 5000 in need of maintenance. Instrument in ABA (Using EscEsc B) and ACABA mode. Print inhibit on. 100 alcohol standard at 34.0C . RFI applied at various positions at back of instrument during B in sequence. RFI from two Cobra walkie-talkies Channel 3 00 used, one transmitting, another receiving, so you can hear when "Talk" is pressed. Intoxilyzer® is a registered trademark of CMI, Inc. The Intoxilyzer® 5000C is an "approved instrument" in Canada.

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