Chemical Exposure and the Affect it may have on the Intox 5000 by Collin County DWI lawyer Troy Burleson
by Collin, Dallas and Denton county DWI attorney Troy Burleson
To understand how chemical exposure might affect the results from an Intoxilyzer 5000, one must first have a basic understanding of how the Intoxilyzer works. The basic operation of the Intox 5000 is infrared spectroscopy combined with a computer program hat converts a measure in decreased light o units of measurement of alcohol (gm/210 liters). The machine does this by measuring infrared light in the sample chamber of the machine. When a subject’s breath is introduced into the sample chamber, a photo detector measures and decrease in light emitted from on side of the chamber to the other side. The amount of the decrease in light is then entered into a computer program designed to convert the decreased light into grams of alcohol and the converted into an expression of grams per 210 liters of air.
