T here is no better, brighter, more shining example of humanity's ingenuity than in the many ways we've come up with to get stoned, whether we're smoking it, eating it, drinking it, pressing it between two really hot plates and then smoking For the first time in human history, we have smoked weed with lasers. The Hitoki Trident is a flower water pipe that goes pew pew to get you high.
If the Death Star were a bong, the Trident would be similar. I'm very impressed with its design and construction. You can hear it as the water chamber seal securely hisses closed, feel it in the clunk-click as the upper laser housing seats onto the heating chamber, and so on. No leaks, no rattles, no weird hotness for no reason. I'm really impressed.
The amount of bits and pieces that go into it should make it more difficult to use. The lower water chamber, the center water filter base, and the upper battery/laser assembly make up the machine. If you want to fill the ceramic loading chamber with shredded plant material, you need to remove the water cylinder and fill it a quarter full. On the side of the unit, put the draw hose into the port. Double-tap the power button on top of the upper stage to unleash a 9-second blast from its 445nm laser. Vaporizing in this context doesn't mean that a Volcano leaves desiccated plant matter behind. I mean like the movie "Terminator 2: Judgement day".
The smoke will be able to pass through the lower water chamber as you draw, and an integrated carb on the back of the unit makes it easy to clear the chamber. The Trident can handle both flower and concentrate, but only if you fill the bowl with a bit of flower and top it with concentrate.
If you want to use the unit to make the room smell pretty and burn some lavender, we need to talk about your spending priorities. Candles can be used for that.
You will need to remove the upper section between draws and poke at the heating chamber to clear the air ports, but you only need to do it once per bowl because there is nothing left but a bit of carbon ash after two rounds with the laser. Give the lower chamber a wipedown whenever you change the water, sweep out the heating chamber between sessions, and occasionally rub the crucible out with a bit of rubbing alcohol. The only thing the company doesn't sell is individual replacements of the laser assembly.
A 5A wall plug is included with the 1400mAh battery. It will take about 90 minutes for the unit to be fully charged, but only occasionally. I have yet to replenish my battery, which the company says is good for nearly 300 sessions.
The process is immediate to me. You are not sitting there waiting for a bag to be filled, for a chamber to be electronically heat, or for leaves to catch fire. Clouds of dense smoke are ready to greet you when you start inhaling after you activated the laser.
The power button color scheme and the length of the hose are the only bugaboos I have. I worry about tipping the unit over to potentially disastrous consequences because of the tall, narrow and generally top heavy cylinder shape of the Trident. I don't want something that will be passed around like a common light bulb in my smoking room. I can poke guests with something gaudy, shiny and metallic that I can use to make a point if I have a long hose.
The heat level indication at the top of the unit starts at red as the cool setting, then green for medium and blue for the highest heat, which makes me crazy. The rest of the industry uses red and white, but blue or green is always the cool one. Since the laser wavelength is in the blue part of the spectrum, it makes sense to have blue be hottest here. The price of the Trident is expensive. It is more expensive than the Volcano Classic, but still less expensive than the Puffco Peak Pro.
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