A New Brand Just Walked In — and It Costs More Than the Olight (UAE 2026)

For two years, everything on our shelves has been either Olight or Acebeam. This month a third name turned up: LOOP GEAR, a Shenzhen factory brand most UAE buyers have never heard of. Its SK05 Pro 2 landed here at AED 599 — which makes it more expensive than the Olight Seeker 4 Pro sitting next to it.

It also claims the biggest number on the shelf: 5,000 lumens. That is a bold place to start. So this is the comparison we would want to read before spending the money: the newcomer against the two established high-output lights we already sell.

The 30-second verdict

• LOOP GEAR SK05 Pro 2 — AED 599. The highest peak output here, and the only one with two independent beams, an 8,000 mAh swappable battery pair and 22W power-bank output. Also the least documented light of the three — see the catch below.
• Olight Seeker 4 Pro — AED 567. Buy it for the rotary knob and stepless dimming, the holster that doubles as a charging dock, and a published runtime for every single mode.
• Acebeam E75 — AED 399. Buy it if you just want maximum light per dirham. It holds 1,500 lumens for 1 hour 45 minutes — the highest sustained output of the three — and costs AED 200 less than the LOOP GEAR.

The honest catch: the biggest number, the smallest spec sheet

This is the single most important thing to understand before you buy the SK05 Pro 2.

Olight and Acebeam both publish the full step-down curve. You can see exactly what happens after the turbo burst ends:

• Seeker 4 Pro: 4,600 lumens for 2.5 minutes, then 1,200 lumens for 122 minutes, then 600 lumens for 35 minutes.
• Acebeam E75: 4,500 lumens for 1 minute, then 1,500 lumens for 1 hour 45 minutes.
• LOOP GEAR SK05 Pro 2: 5,000 lumens maximum. That is close to the entire published figure. No step-down, no runtime per mode, no beam distance in metres, no candela, no weight.

There is a second thing worth knowing about that 5,000: it is a combined figure. The SK05 Pro 2 runs two separate emitters — a 2,500-lumen spotlight and a 3,800-lumen floodlight — and 5,000 lumens is what you get with both firing in dual-light turbo. No single beam on this torch produces 5,000 lumens. That is a legitimate design, but it is not the same claim as the Olight’s 4,600 from one emitter, and the box does not spell that out.

We are not going to invent the missing numbers. What we can tell you from physics is that 5,000 lumens is a peak, not a level — every compact light in this class steps down hard as it heats up, and a flat aluminium body running two emitters at once is no exception. If you have read our guide to what flashlight spec sheets actually mean, you already know the headline lumen number is the least useful figure on the box.

The practical consequence: with the two established brands you can plan around a known sustained output. With the SK05 Pro 2 you are buying the feature set, not a verified runtime. At AED 599 — the most expensive of the three — that is a fair thing to hold against it.

Side by side

Where the SK05 Pro 2 genuinely wins

Two beams, not one. A 2,500-lumen spot and a 3,800-lumen flood sit side by side in a flat body, and you can run either or both. The Seeker 4 Pro and the E75 each give you one beam shape and ask you to live with it. If that distinction is new to you, our flood vs throw guide explains why one emitter rarely does both jobs well — the SK05’s answer is simply to fit two.

8,000 mAh, and you can swap it in seconds. Two 4,000 mAh cells against the Seeker 4 Pro’s single 5,000 mAh — and the Olight cell is a customised 21700 you cannot replace with a generic one from a shop in Deira. Carry a charged spare pair for the SK05 and mains power stops mattering. Our battery guide covers why this matters more than most people expect.

It charges your phone at 22W. Neither the Seeker 4 Pro nor the E75 will output power at all. During a building power cut that changes what the light is for — it stops being a torch and becomes part of your home blackout kit.

A sidelight that does two jobs. High-CRI white for close work where colour accuracy matters, plus RGB for signalling, marking a tent or just atmosphere. It is the kind of feature the established brands leave off a torch at this price.

IP68, which puts it level with the E75 and slightly ahead of the Seeker 4 Pro’s IPX8 on dust. Our IP ratings explainer covers what that X actually means.

Where the Olight and the Acebeam win

Olight Seeker 4 Pro (AED 567) has the best interface of the three. The enlarged rotary knob gives stepless dimming that works with heavy gloves on, and the vertical holster doubles as a charging dock you can screw to a wall or keep in the car. Every mode has a published runtime: 300 lm for 11 hours, 50 lm for 60 hours, 5 lm moonlight for 15 days.

Two honest caveats we have raised before in our full Seeker 4 Pro review: USB-C charging only works through the holster, and the pocket clip is not in the box. Since 2024 it also no longer unlocks by long-press — you rotate the switch past 90 degrees instead.

Acebeam E75 (AED 399) is the value pick and it is not close. AED 200 cheaper than the LOOP GEAR, and it holds 1,500 lumens for 1 hour 45 minutes — the best sustained figure here. The 21700 cell has its own USB-C port built into the battery, so you can charge the cell directly. Add a magnetic tail, a stainless strike bezel and a 1-lumen moonlight mode that runs 26 days.

Note the LED: the E75 ships in several emitter configurations, and the one we stock is the 4× TN cool white 6500K — 4,500 lm and 260 m. The high-CRI and XP-LR versions have different numbers entirely. Full detail in our E75 review, and if you are cross-shopping pocket lights, our E75 vs Baton 4 Pro comparison covers that angle.

So which one should you buy?

• You want two beams, a swappable 8,000 mAh pair and a torch that charges your phone → LOOP GEAR SK05 Pro 2, accepting that sustained output and beam distance are unpublished. In Mao White or Black.
• You want the best controls and a documented number for every mode → Olight Seeker 4 Pro. Also our pick for anyone who wants a light permanently docked and charged by the door.
• You want the most usable light for the least money → Acebeam E75. For most buyers reading this page, this is the sensible answer.

A word on buying a brand nobody knows yet

We stock LOOP GEAR because the SK05 Pro 2 does things our Olight and Acebeam range does not. But a new brand carries a real, unglamorous risk: the service network behind it is unproven in this region, and the published data is thinner than we would like. That is exactly why we have written the gaps into this page rather than around them.

Olight and Acebeam both have established UAE support paths — we covered how that works in buying genuine torches in the UAE. If a long warranty tail matters more to you than a feature list, that is a legitimate reason to pick one of the two known names here, and we would rather say so.

Still deciding what class of light you need at all? Start with how to choose a flashlight in the UAE, or see how the brands stack up in best torch light brand in the UAE. If this is for a job rather than a drawer, our work lights guide sorts them by trade.

All three lights are stocked in the UAE and priced in AED. Specifications are taken from each manufacturer’s published data for the exact variant we sell — where a figure is unpublished, we have said so rather than estimated it.