hi all! i posted a request for suggestions for a work light on CPF and the number of people who offered help was amazing. only thing was, in the questionaire answers i had mentioned a budget of about $25 (which i later upgraded to $50 to allow more suggestions) and the suggestions ranged from $10 to over $500! 
anyway, i’ll list the flashlights that weren’t WAY out of my price range, and see if any budget-conscious flashaholics can add to the list at all.
first, what i need it for (copied from my cpf post):
“i work night duty in hospitals as a patient sitter/safety attendant. i make sure confused patients (acquired brain injury, psychiatric and dementia) don’t climb & fall out of bed, rip out their IV needles or wander off into the night. sometimes there’s a lot of ambient light (corridor lights are left on just outside the open door of the patients’ room) and other nights i’m sitting in an almost-pitch black room trying to see what the hell the patient is doing, by the light of a few ultra-dim lights that show power is running to the wall electric socket.
the light will be used to sit on a table while i document the patients’ behaviours, used to illuminate the patient and their bed to see what they’re up to or to try and determine which bodily excretion the patient and/or their bed is covered with (blood, faeces, vomit, urine or saliva…) and used for ceiling/wall-bounce for a diffuse light during hands-on work (changing geriatric diapers, holding the patient’s hands away from their feed tube, IV needle or catheter.)
aside from that… i prefer incan light, but would be very happy with an LED with a warm to neutral tint… high CRI if it’ll help determine skin colour in dim light (ie: people turn blue when they’re hypoxic), low light only or a firefly/moonlight mode - would only need higher for ceiling-bounce, and maybe a diffuser lense to soften the light a little. oh, and working range is from ‘notes on the table’ to about the size of a 4-bed room (never anything more distant)
thanks in advance for any suggestions.”
and now the list of suggested flashlights:
Malkoff MDC 1AA AUD$145
mini-Maglite AUD$19
SureFire A2 AUD$190
HDS Rotary HiCRI AUD$560
Lumintop Tool Nichia 219b AUD$14
ReyLight Tool Ti Nichia 219B Titanium 110LM AAA Mini LED Flashlight AUD$83
Nitecore LA10 CRI AUD$42
lumintop worm AUD$43
GITD Grow in the dark Diffuser AUD$
Thrunite Ti3 AUD$22
Manker E01 AUD$22
Nitecore Tip high CRI version AUD$48
Jaxman E2 AUD$22
Zebralight SC5C II AUD$94
Eagletac D25A Nichia high CRI emitter AUD$71
Maratac AAA AUD$55
as you can see, a large list of amazing lights. are there any other budget lights that fit the bill? and come in under $50? and which of those on the list win your vote?
thanks in advance for any help or suggestions! 
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