Product Description

The AlcoHAWK ABI utilizes a state-of-the-art semiconductor oxide sensor to test breath alcohol content quickly and accurately. The simple one-button operation provides a digital reading in seconds. It is one of the top selling breath alcohol screening devices in the market. All AlcoHAWKs® now include Sensor Recognition Technology to monitor for certain types of abnormal sensor conditions. The AlcoHAWK ABI is Department of Transportation (DOT)/ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) approved and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared for consumer use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9702 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: AlcoHawk
• Model: Q3I-10000
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Quick and accurate test results with a simple one-button operation
• Electronic airflow sensor to ensure a deep lung sample for testing
• 0.000 - 0.400% BAC (blood alcohol concentration)
• +/- 0.01% at 0.02% B.A.C. sensor accuracy
• Semicoductor sensor with 2 digit display for accuracy

Customer Reviews

A Blast at the Bar.. and It Keeps You from Behind Bars
This product works, and it works well. It provides hours of entertainment at the bar, and, if you heed its numbers, keeps you from behind both the wheel of a car and the bars of a jail cell. Use it for fun and to save your bacon! Worth every penny, as a DUI or DWI will cost you a lot more!

And as for the calibration issues. Recalibrate it by blowing compressed air through it or putting the mouthpiece out the window of your car on the freeway, mouthpiece forward, while it does its countdown. The blast of air during the countdown recalibrates the machine. Mine has worked, doing regular recalibrations, for nearly six months now.

Needs Recalibration Quickly
Fine for the first six weeks or so...very interesting...but now reading 3.4 after 3 beers...

Like most technology hardware companies these days, the margin is in the services. $19.95 to recalibrate...

Not really pleased with the purchase, as I don't see long term value for your $100. Was it worth $100 for six weeks? no.

Consistent but not accurate
I purchased this a few weeks ago and have tried it as well as had a few friends try it to see it worked the same for them.

Basically it seems like the makers of the product said we really don't want people thinking they can drive by giving a reading of .07 or something, so lets make this thing multiply the real reading by 2. One night after 4 beers in 2 hours, and the recommended 20 minute waiting period afterwards, I blew a .14. Last weekend at the end of the night I blew a .33 and was not in driving shape, but far from blacked out. My friend that same night (all following the 20 minute delay periods as well) blew a .37. As a 105lb girl I am pretty sure she wasn't anywhere near that considering we were having a conversation and the instruction manual said she should be in a deep coma and at .40 she should be dead.

On the other side it is very consistent. I blow, and wait 2 minutes, nearly identical everytime. I guess you just need to know what real number corresponds to what they are telling you. I am going to try re-calibrating a few more times before I return it though.