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🚨🔊 Meet the ISB-E Sounder Beacon Range!
The ISB-E Sounder Beacon builds off our Series E range to combine audio and visual signalling, designed to integrate seamlessly into your warning system. With a range of colour options, voltage inputs, and 64 selectable tones, you can be assured that your signalling...
🚦 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...
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...
deegee @ Elfack, Gothenburg 6th – 9th May 2025
Save the date! Our good friends at TOLEKA AB are exhibiting! You can visit the team at Elfack, Northern Europe’s No.1 Trade Fair on energy and electrification, to discuss your beacon and sounder needs 06-09 May 2025 at booths C00:15 & C00:16. They will be more...
Which is better, Xenon or LED? 🚨
Xenon strobe beacons and LED beacons are both a popular option for warning lights, however with technology advancing, LED beacons do seem to be becoming the go-to option. Here's a quick look into the key features between each unit. Which Should You Choose?...
Hand Built & Hand Packed 🧱📦
🚨 Here at D G Controls Limited , every single product is hand built, individually tested and hand packed at our site in Swadlincote! 🚨 No big, industrial machinery in sight to do the job, giving you total confidence and faith that every product that leaves our site is...
Meet the Team!
Meet the Team! Stacey is our first point of call in the Sales Team. She has 16 years of beacon knowledge, so you can be assured that your enquiry is processed with a technical mind! 🚨 Stacey is efficient in all she does, and is a highly valued member of the team. Out...
The Different Types of Light Modes 🚨
Beacon lights have different operational modes of light, understanding these different modes will help you to select the best beacon for your application to aid increased awareness and help people to know how to react to the given situation. ⚡ Pulsing A pulsing light...
Choosing Audible Warning Signals 🔊
Audible warning signals deliver loud sounds that grab immediate attention to critical matters. When choosing a signal, there are some considerations you need to take into account. Firstly, you need to consider what type of audible warning signal you require, there is...
Behind the scenes – Product Design & Development 🚨
At D. G. Controls, our Product Development and Design department is where ideas become market-leading solutions. Every new beacon and sounder begins its journey here, with careful design, prototyping, and rigorous testing to ensure longevity, performance, and...
Meet the Team!
Hilary is our longest serving member of the Production Team, making it to almost 14 years so far! She is highly skilled in all aspects of manufacturing, and is an asset to the team. When she’s not building beacons, she likes to spend time with her 4 grand children,...
Showcasing our SBB – ICAO, LED Obstacle Warning Beacon! 🚨
The D. G. Controls SBB LED Obstacle Warning Beacon is an ICAO Annex 14 Chapter 6 compliant low intensity Type-B, fixed obstacle light. Available with Infra-Red, our SBB is also compliant with the IR requirements for low intensity obstruction lights outlined by the...