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We put our brown Spirit jumping spider out on Wednesday, and an unexpected thunderstorm came through on Thursday. The rain was short in duration but heavy in amount and our spider got soaked. The control board was shorting from the water and the spider quit working. I went to the Spirit store in Orange Park to get another one Friday morning. I walked in and there were no jumping spiders to be found. I chased down a clerk and she told me the only spider they had left was their display one, and I could buy that one if I wanted it. I said as long as I could check it to make sure it worked, I would buy it. She got a power adapter and plugged the spider in.
The first thing I noticed was our spider would shutter for a second before leaping, like something was winding up. This one jumped immediately once the sensor was tripped. The second thing I noticed was the spider retracted quicker and smoother than my spider. I thought that maybe our spider didn't work as well because it was older, but it's working the same as it did when we got it last year. Anyway, while I was worried about buying a floor display, that had been leaping for the past two or three months, we needed a spider so I said I would get it.
The clerk told me she would get the box for me and I told her I didn't really need it, but she said she knew where it was so she would go get it. She came back with this big brown square box, not the rectangular spider box, and I told her I thought she was getting me the spider box and she said it was the box for the spider. I looked at the front and it said it was for a sample jumping spider, SKU# 0118470. I got on my phone and checked the SKU for the brown spider on the website and it was 01174804.
When I got home I put the sample spider next to the regular spider and saw the IR/sound sensor is different and the launch mechanism is a little different. The IR/sound sensor on the sample spider is much more sensitive than the regular spider. They were the same at close range, but I could make the sample spider jump using sound from much further away than the regular spider. Also, on the IR side, the IR sensor had a wider arc of detection than the regular spider. What I really liked was the sample spider jumped much quicker and smoothly than the regular spider. Once someone entered the detection arc the spider launched with no delay or shuttering.
So it's looking like the sample spiders are better made than the regular models, which makes sense given they are expected to work longer and better than the regular ones. So if you get a chance to buy a sample model 0118470 spider... grab it.
The first thing I noticed was our spider would shutter for a second before leaping, like something was winding up. This one jumped immediately once the sensor was tripped. The second thing I noticed was the spider retracted quicker and smoother than my spider. I thought that maybe our spider didn't work as well because it was older, but it's working the same as it did when we got it last year. Anyway, while I was worried about buying a floor display, that had been leaping for the past two or three months, we needed a spider so I said I would get it.
The clerk told me she would get the box for me and I told her I didn't really need it, but she said she knew where it was so she would go get it. She came back with this big brown square box, not the rectangular spider box, and I told her I thought she was getting me the spider box and she said it was the box for the spider. I looked at the front and it said it was for a sample jumping spider, SKU# 0118470. I got on my phone and checked the SKU for the brown spider on the website and it was 01174804.
When I got home I put the sample spider next to the regular spider and saw the IR/sound sensor is different and the launch mechanism is a little different. The IR/sound sensor on the sample spider is much more sensitive than the regular spider. They were the same at close range, but I could make the sample spider jump using sound from much further away than the regular spider. Also, on the IR side, the IR sensor had a wider arc of detection than the regular spider. What I really liked was the sample spider jumped much quicker and smoothly than the regular spider. Once someone entered the detection arc the spider launched with no delay or shuttering.
So it's looking like the sample spiders are better made than the regular models, which makes sense given they are expected to work longer and better than the regular ones. So if you get a chance to buy a sample model 0118470 spider... grab it.