Customer Reviews

Alcohawk Precision Digital Alcohol Breath Tester

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Nearly two years of ownership and it has been a great purchase. I have no shame dorking up my drinking. Use to ensure legal driving or for ill advised contests. Also determine what at what BAC memory gets spotty (what point is there exceeding that?). Fun to call out big talkers who don't suspect you are packing a lie detector of sorts. Also useful to get people off your back who think you are too drunk to drive.

Pros
precision to third decimal place. rare at this price at time of my purchase

Very repeatable with consistant deep breath

Small enough to take to bars in jacket pocket or cargo pockets. Light for its size.

Cons
Innaccurate if sips have been taken within 10 minutes or so. True for all breathalyzers. Drunk idiots have tough time getting it through their heads

Warm up/calibration time ~45 sec. Another let down at parties but perhaps key to accuracy

Would be nice if it was more pocket sized

Chirps at you alarm clock style if above .08 "I know I'm drunk, shut up!"

This is a great product - it actually is kind of fun. I thought of getting it because our friend has one that he passes around at parties. It's neat for people to see how high their blood alcohol content is, and if it's about what they expect it to be.

My only complaint is that this product is not meant to be used often. The second time we "played" with it (at home), the readings seemed to be off. I then read in the product information that if you use the product frequently, it may need to be recalibrated every month or so. Recalibration involves mailing it off and paying $20.

Now that we know that, we'll keep it in our pocket and use it when we truly have concerns - not passing it around for everyone to use. But I love that they sell these for the public to use, and it truly is an important safety tool for modern times.

I tested this unit at home both in the morning after no alcohol to prove it showed nothing and then at night after having 2 glasses of wine and it worked great! It is easy to use. I did have to replace the batteries it came with with new ones which is to be expected with any electronic purchase that comes with batteries. They always come with cheap batteries. I would recommend this unit. I bought it to keep at home for when my teenager comes home. In case I need to prove/disprove alcohol usage.

I bought this for my boyfriend for his birthday, and he loves it. We took the train to the city one night, and thought we were fine to drive by the time we got back to the station. Just to be sure, we tested ourselves. Sure enough, we were both a little over, so we took a nap in the backseat until one of us was good to go.
It's also a fun toy when you want to guess who will blow the highest percentage, or to test yourself the next morning to see if you still have alcohol in your system. :)
The only annoying thing is that you have to wait about 15 minutes after consuming alcohol to use it.

I'm a 25 year old college graduate working full time who was looking for a novelty breathalyzer that would tell me exactly how drunk I really get. I've had the product for about a month now and it seems to work well. I've tried it a couple times with a few different people and the results seem accurate. I've seen some random errors popping up when different people use it but that's because you have to get familiar with the blowing part. Actually, last night I got an error that said SHT. I think it was taunting me. Maybe next time it will say FCK.

It took me a while to finally pick a model. There are a lot to choose from on Amazon and they all seem to have limitations. I didn't want to get one cheaper than this because if I'm going to buy one of these, I want it to work. If I had more money I could have got one of the fancier ones but they seem like overkill.

You don't need to buy a bunch of those clear tubes. They can be reused (or at least that's what I'm doing with them).

Last nigth I blew a 0.165 and 12 hours later I was still registering at 0.07! Wow, that was eye opening. Time to go sleep off this hangover.

Happy drinking!

I bought one of these to use as an aid to know when I can safely drive after having a few drinks at the bar. Of course before using it I wanted to test it at home several times to see if it provided consistent measurements. What I've found is that it is not accurate. I drank one glass of wine...waited 30 mins and tested. It came up as .066. This seemed high but I thought maybe it was right. A couple days later I drank the same amount of wine...waited 30 mins and tested again. It read .040. I began to wonder. Then this evening I had one more glass of wine and it tested me at .019. I haven't been drinking in between so I know there is no tolerance.

I can't recommend this item to anyone. When it arrived it seemed very cheaply made...like a generic product from China...which it apparently is. The fact that it doesn't work well tops it off.

About a year ago, a police officer pulled me over, and with one look at me stated "sir, step out of the car". Not good. I thought I was OK to drive, I felt fine...until I took the field sobriety tests. I failed all three in quite a miserable way. It sucks knowing you are going to jail on a Friday night. I blew 0.173, double the legal limit. Again, not good.

Fortunately for me, my sober wife was in the car and he felt sorry for me since I was a lowly state government employee. He let me go. The next day I looked online a bought a breathlyzer on eBay. It has saved me many times. You think you may be able to drive, but once you check yourself you realize you are in trouble.

I highly recommend this device. Follow the instructions carefully. Don't blow into this right after you took a shot. If you do, you will destroy the device. That's why I had to buy my second one. Keep testing yourself until you have 3 consecutive tests that give similar results. You will find that you are much more intoxicated than you think.

This tester has worked OK for me. I don't use it very often, but at the beginning I did some tests, and the values were according to what it should be for the alcohol consumption I had and my weight. Subsequent reads are very close to each other.

The item did not work out of the box, acting like the battery was low and would error out when taking the test. I tested several sets of different brands of batteries on a voltmeter and determined them all to be good, none of them helped this product work any better. I immediately returned it and purchased a similar model from this same company through Sharper Image, which stopped working two weeks later, claiming I was a .39 even sober (At .39 BAC, most people would need to be hospitalized). I followed all precautions set forth in the manual and feel these products are not made to last and others should spend their money more wisely.

Tremendously accurate, It's amazing how quickly you reach the legal limit that prohibits you from driving. Basically a few drinks and you are illegal and don't even feel like you've been drinkling.
Great product.