One Flat Body, Five Jobs — and the Spec Sheet LOOP GEAR Won't Print (UAE 2026)

Most of the shelf here is Olight and Acebeam, so when a torch from a third brand turns up at AED 599 — more than either of them charges for a similar output — the fair question is: what are you actually paying for?

The LOOP GEAR SK05 Pro 2 is not trying to be the brightest or the longest-throwing light we sell. It is trying to be the one you reach for when you don’t know which job is coming next: 5,000 lumens of spot and flood from a flat body that won’t roll off a car bonnet, a high-CRI and RGB sidelight, two swappable cells, and a 22W USB-C power bank that will top up your phone. It is a genuinely clever little tool. It also comes with a catch we don’t usually have to write about, and we’ll get to it.

Who it’s for — and who should skip it

Buy it if you want a single flat tool for the car boot, the campsite or the job site: something that stands flush on its base as a work light, throws a spot when you need reach, floods a whole tent when you don’t, charges your phone in a pinch, and shrugs off dust and a dunk. The RGB sidelight is genuinely useful for roadside visibility and marking gear in the dark.

Skip it if you carry a torch in a jeans pocket every day — a flat 5,000-lumen brick is not an EDC pocket light. Skip it too if you are the kind of buyer who reads runtime charts before spending, or who wants the most output for the money. For those, the Seeker 4 Pro or the Acebeam E75 are the documented, better-value picks — we lay all three side by side in our SK05 vs Seeker 4 Pro vs E75 comparison.

Specifications

Here is what LOOP GEAR states for the version we stock — and, just as importantly, what it doesn’t.

We list only figures LOOP GEAR states for this model. Where a number isn’t in their specification, we say so rather than print an estimate.

What 5,000 lumens actually means here

The headline 5,000 lumens is the turbo figure, and it is both emitters firing at once — a 2,500-lumen spot and a 3,800-lumen flood layered together. That is a lot of light from a palm-sized body, and it is the SK05 Pro 2’s real party trick: you spin the dial to place reach and coverage independently, instead of clicking through a fixed menu.

But 5,000 lumens is a maximum, not a level you hold. Every compact light in this class steps its output down as it heats, and a body this small warms up quickly on turbo. That is physics, not a flaw — but it is exactly why the number on the box is the wrong thing to shop on. You will spend almost all your time on the middle of the dial, where the light runs cool and lasts. If that surprises you, read why turbo lumens don’t last and what flashlight specs actually mean — two minutes each, and you’ll never overpay for a headline lumen again.

The one catch, stated plainly: because LOOP GEAR doesn’t publish per-mode runtimes, we can’t tell you exactly how many minutes turbo holds or how long the middle settings last — and we won’t invent it. Olight and Acebeam print those tables; LOOP GEAR does not. If a documented runtime chart is part of how you buy, that gap is the reason to look at a Seeker 4 Pro instead.

The party trick: power bank + swappable cells

This is where the AED 599 starts to make sense. The SK05 Pro 2 runs on two swappable 4,000 mAh cells, charges over USB-C, and pushes power back out at 22W to charge a phone. Most torches at this size either seal the battery in (charge it or wait) or skip power-bank output entirely. Here you can carry a spare pair of cells for effectively unlimited runtime in the field, and use the torch as an emergency phone charger on a long night drive or a camp with no socket.

That combination — swappable cells you can hot-swap, plus reverse charging — is rare, and it is the single strongest reason to choose this over a sealed-battery light. If keeping every device topped up off-grid matters to you, it also earns a place in our best rechargeable flashlights in the UAE guide.

The sidelight: useful, or a gimmick?

The flat face carries a sidelight strip that does two things. The high-CRI white is for close, colour-accurate work — reading a label, checking a wound, matching a wire — where the main 6500K flood is too cold and too much. The RGB (red, green, blue) is for signalling, marking your spot in a dark car park, or adding a little camp atmosphere.

Here is the honest read: the high-CRI strip is the genuinely useful half, and it matters because the main beam is not high-CRI — the flood is a straight 6500K cool white. So if colour accuracy is why you’re here, know that it lives on the little side strip, not the big emitters. (New to colour temperature and CRI? Here’s what those numbers mean — only one torch on our shelf even publishes a CRI figure.) The RGB is a nice-to-have that a few buyers will use weekly and most will forget — don’t let it be the reason you buy.

Build, finish and sealing

The flat profile is the whole idea. It sits flush on any surface as a hands-free work light, lies flat in a bag instead of printing like a tube, and pairs with a magnetic base so you can stick it under a car or inside a tent. It is IP68 — sealed against dust and rated for submersion — which is a step above the IPX8 splash-and-dunk rating on most of the Olight line; here’s exactly what IP68 promises. The Mao White finish is a ceramic-look micro-arc oxidation surface; the Black is a more conventional anodised look. Both are AED 599, both in stock.

What we’d change

Two things, and the first is the big one:

Publish the numbers. Per-mode runtimes, beam distance in metres, and weight are the three figures a serious buyer checks, and LOOP GEAR states none of them for this model. The light is good enough that it doesn’t need to hide behind a headline lumen count — a proper spec table would let it compete with Olight and Acebeam on merit. Until it exists, we review the SK05 Pro 2 for what it demonstrably does, not for a data sheet we can’t see.

Offer a neutral-white flood. A 4000–5000K option would make the main beam far easier on the eyes for close work and photography, and would stop the high-CRI story from living entirely on the sidelight.

How it compares

Read it this way: if you want a pure torch with the best value and a documented spec sheet, the Seeker 4 Pro or E75 win, and they cost less. If you want a flat multi-tool — power bank, RGB, swappable cells, magnetic work-light stance, IP68 — nothing else on our shelf does all of it at once, and that is what the SK05 Pro 2 is for. The full head-to-head is in our three-way comparison. It’s also worth knowing this isn’t LOOP GEAR’s only oddball — see our take on the pocket-sized LOOP GEAR LOOPDOT.

Should you buy the SK05 Pro 2?

Buy it if the pitch — one flat, sealed, magnetic body that lights five ways and charges your phone — is exactly the tool-drawer or car-boot light you’ve been missing. There is nothing else quite like it here, and the swappable-cell-plus-power-bank combination is the real reason to spend the AED 599.

Don’t buy it as your everyday pocket torch (too flat and too much light for that), as a dedicated thrower (it isn’t one), or if you can’t buy a light without a runtime chart to read — because this one doesn’t come with one, and we’d rather you knew that now than feel it later. If that’s you, the Seeker 4 Pro is the safer, better-documented, slightly cheaper pick.

Either way, the SK05 Pro 2 is in stock in the UAE in Black and Mao White, priced in AED, and covered by a 5-year LOOP GEAR warranty.

Further reading

• SK05 Pro 2 vs Seeker 4 Pro vs Acebeam E75 — the full three-way, same-price-band comparison
• Why turbo lumens don’t last — what “5,000 lumens” really buys you
• How to choose a flashlight in the UAE — the plain-English beginner’s guide
• IP68 vs IPX8 — what waterproof ratings actually promise
• Best rechargeable flashlights in the UAE — including which ones charge your devices back

Stocked in the UAE and priced in AED. The version we carry uses the 6500K floodlight. Actual product colour may vary slightly from images.