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🚦 Meet the SA Stack Light Range!
The SA Stacking Signal Beacon allows tool-free, modular signalling. With both LED and SML configurations, sounder options, and a range of colours available, the SA Stacker offers a solution for production line indication and control panel applications. Features:•...
D G Controls Multi-Voltage Beacons
Did you know that D G Controls offer a large range of multi-function and multi-voltage beacons, sounders, and combined sounder beacons...! 🚨 Most LED beacons within our range are 8 mode multi-function, consisting of a static mode, standard pulse mode, slow pulse mode,...
🔊 Meet the IAS-C Sounder Range!
The IAS-C is a compact, high-output sounder designed to integrate seamlessly with our Series B and C beacons. With 64 tone options and IP66 resistance, the IAS-C is ideal for safety-critical applications in industrial environments.Features:• Powerful, IP66-rated...
Meet the Team! 🎉
We’d like to give you the chance to familiarise yourselves with the faces behind TEAMdeegee, soooo……check out our ‘Team’ page on our website to see what we’ve been up to!https://beaconlamps.com/company/teamHopefully you’ll have as much fun reading, as we did creating...
🚦 Meet the STC Stacking Beacon Range!
The STC is a compact, modular stacking signal beacon solution for space-limited industrial and automation environments. With a range of voltage and colour options, the STC provides clear, reliable communication in all environmentsFeatures:• High-performance signalling...
D G Controls Ltd IPN Range
D G Controls IPN Range gives clear, visual signalling in traffic management for vehicles and pedestrians alike. They are a high brightness, LED, IP65 rated unit which give an unmistakable instruction. Let’s have a look at the range! 🚨 IPN/001 This is a static, 3-way...
🚨Meet the XFL Xenon Strobe Beacon Range
The XFL is a high-performance xenon strobe warning beacon, delivering intense visual alerts in industrial settings. With both single or double-flash signalling patterns, 6 lens colours, and a range of voltage outputs, the XFL ensures maximum visibility where needed...
⚡ EMC Testing: Ensuring Product Compliance and Reliability
At D.G. Controls Ltd, we recognise the critical importance of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing in ensuring our products meet both legal and performance standards. But what is the significance of EMC testing? What is EMC testing? EMC testing assesses how and...
🚨 Meet the SBE Type A Aviation Obstruction Warning Beacon
The SBE Series builds on our Series E range, offering an ICAO compliant aviation obstruction warning beacon that adapts easily to your existing warning solutions. Features:• Designed to meet ICAO guidelines for marking fixed obstructions safely• IP65-rated housing...
About Us 👏
D G Controls was founded in 1967. We design, manufacture and distribute a wide range of audible and visual warning signals, all from our longstanding site in Swadlincote. Since 1967 we have been committed to designing and building reliable products, pushing boundaries...
🚦 Have you seen our STC/Autosignal?
The STC/AutoSignal in action The STC/Autosignal is a fantastic multi-signalling tower, offering individual Red, Amber, Green, Blue and Clear segments. Instead of leaving empty spaces for inactive signals, light output automatically adjusts, filling the tower with the...
About TEAMdeegee
At D.G. Controls Ltd, we are proud to offer Free Next Day Despatch on 1000’s of products, ensuring that our customers receive the products they need with speed and efficiency, where possible. But what truly sets us apart is our incredible team behind the scenes that...
Ingress Protection
The IP rating system (Ingress Protection rating system) is a scale of how waterproof and airtight an electrical enclosure is, as determined by the international standard IEC/EN 60529. Using the IP rating system gives a clear and concise guide to ensure that an item is...
Pulsed LED Beacons
Pulsed LED beacons are used to signify an alarm and to warn of danger. They work by an electronic circuit inside the beacon controlling the light source, turning it off and on constantly according to the flash rate set by the end-user, for example 120fpm.By using LED...
The D G Controls Family
At D G Controls Ltd, “family” isn’t just about ownership. It’s a way of working, thinking, and most importantly, treating each other. We believe strong business starts with a strong team. That means not just working together – but growing together, with shared...
Did you know we supply installation accessories for most of our products?
There are a wide variety of installation accessories available with most sounders and beacons that help to aid greater visibility, provide protection from nearby elements and make general maintenance of the unit easier as it is more accessible. D.G. Controls Ltd range...
Did you know we offer an IP69K rated beacon?
Our Series C, IP69K rated beacon range is available in LED and Xenon models and are the perfect solution to most environments and applications, particularly in environments where compulsive/excessive cleaning procedures are required. IP69K rated beacons are tested to...
Meet the Team!
John is the newest member of our Manufacturing team, starting with us at the beginning of the year. He is familiarising himself with the industry at great speed, and is already fully trained in many aspects of production. We do love a fast learner! 👏 In his free time,...
How Do Xenon Strobe Beacons Work? 🚨
Xenon strobe beacons are starting to become more energy efficient by using LED’s rather than a gas filled xenon tube. However the gas filled tube style are still very much available and on the market. Gas-filled xenon beacons work by storing energy in a capacitor,...
D G Controls Ltd – Stacking Tower 🚦
Stacking tower beacons - also known as andon lights, are ideally suited to multi-status signalling applications such as machinery, to draw attention to fault conditions and warning messages. A modular stack approach enables stacks of lights to be constructed from any...
⚡ New Product Launch! – Introducing the LFB Range ⚡
Introducing our LFB range - a new generation of LED warning lights that replicate the visual effect of xenon strobes.These high-power warning lights utilise latest technology LED’s, combined with high-tech optics, to provide generally low power, long-lasting,...
Meet the Team!
Bridget joined our Production Team back in 2019, and has enjoyed growing her skills and manufacturing knowledge over the years. Fully trained in all areas of the manufacturing role, Bridget is a huge asset to the team. Away from work, she enjoys spending time with her...
deegee Part Codes
Here at D G Controls Limited we have many beacons to offer in our range each with a unique part code. We break our range down into Series models, then into individual part/stock codes. D G Controls part codes begin with three standard letters, indicating the type of...
🚨 Static Warning Lights!
Static warning lights stay continuously lit, guiding us and keeping us safe in everyday situations. For example, in every commercial building you enter you will see a static signal lighting up where a fire escape is throughout the building. Static warning signals are...
🚨 Beacon Colours Meaning 🚨
A visual signal must be applied in such a way that anyone who sees it can recognise it and is able to react immediately to it. Beacons convey strong and vital messages in the colours they use. They deliver clear messages not only in their colour, but also in their...
🚦 Traffic Lights
Traffic lights are signalling devices most commonly found positioned on roads, junction intersections and pedestrian crossings to control the flow of traffic. Additionally, they also appear in other areas, mainly on bridges, train crossings and stations, buildings,...
Meet the Team!
Matt is our Product Development Engineer, and the brains behind new product launches and product upgrades. He has an abundance of technical knowledge, which is key to our ongoing innovation. 🙌 Outside of work, he enjoys playing hockey at the weekend, as well as...
Behind the scenes – Production 🏭
At our purpose-built facility in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, every D. G. Controls product is built by hand from start to finish by our highly skilled production team. With over 5000 different product variations, D. G. Controls relies on hand assembly to maintain...
☎️ Telephone Initiated Beacons
Telephone Initiated Beacons provide a visual signal when a telephone rings. 🚨 People rely on these beacons in noisy environments with high ambient noise and in everyday places like care homes, where hearing a phone ring can be difficult. The visual beacon makes the...
Meet the Team!
Kyla has been a valued member of our Production Team since 2011, and is highly skilled in all aspects of the role. She is a fantastic problem solver, and always willing to try her hand at anything. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, gardening, and entertaining her...