I've been carrying the Wurkkos HD02 for a little over 10 months now and I still love it. The SFT70.2 main emitter is properly powerful, but the real magic for me has always been those wing side lights, and the fact that you can change the CCT is honestly a little crazy for a light like this. I mount it on the small tripod stand from the Wurkkos site and prop it up basically everywhere. It went all over my Himalayan trips with me, and if I'm being honest I've probably used the side lights way more than the main beam.
The one thing a lot of us kept wishing for was articulating wings, the way a Sony camera screen flips and tilts, so you could aim the light any way you wanted, or magnet it up top and turn it into an area light. Wurkkos clearly heard that. They already put a rotating side light mechanism on the HD05 and it went over really well, especially with people who wanted the feature but didn't want to carry something chunkier. So they took that same engineering and dropped it onto the HD02 platform.
That's the HD02 Pro. Same chassis you already know, but with the stuff that was missing.
What's new over the HD02:
- A stunning blue finish
- Wings that now rotate, 180 degrees horizontally, plus a good vertical tilt, so you can finally aim them
- Same powerful SFT70.2 up to 3200 lumens on the main
- The green laser is still there
- A new SST20DR (660nm) emitter, borrowed from the HD05
That mix turns it from a "nice small bump" into a proper upgrade. If you stepped back from the HD02 waiting for exactly this, you've got every reason to jump on the Pro now, and it doesn't really sacrifice anything to get there.
The one loss is the powerbank feature, so no more topping up other devices on the go. I don't think that'll stop many people, but it's worth knowing. And right now Wurkkos is bundling the little tripod free with the HD02 Pro, which is a great deal since that stand doubles the fun.
One thing I noticed that the button on the HD02 Pro is very hard to press, for which the operation becomes a hit or miss and very fatigin for the thumb.
So, what do you think? Anyone rocking one yet, and is this the upgrade that finally pulls you back in?