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🚧 D G Controls Ltd Traffic Barrier Beacon

🚧 D G Controls Ltd Traffic Barrier Beacon

Our Traffic Barrier Beacon utilises the latest LED technology to provide a low power, long life, visual warning signal. Designed to be mounted onto a barrier, this beacon is multi-function. Offering a pulsed and static mode with an additional control input available...

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“If we can help you, we will!” 💯

We were recently contacted by a customer whose first choice of beacon from a competitor wasn’t available for the foreseeable. The client needed the beacons on-site for install on Friday.  Our alternative was slightly more expensive - but as this shows, it’s...

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🚨 The Importance of Industrial Warning Lights 🚨

🚨 The Importance of Industrial Warning Lights 🚨

Industrial warning lights play a crucial role in ensuring safety and efficiency in various workplaces. These lights, often seen in factories, construction sites, and warehouses, are designed to alert workers to potential hazards, equipment malfunctions, or operational...

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🚨 Type-A / Type-B ICAO Beacons

🚨 Type-A / Type-B ICAO Beacons

🚨 Aircraft warning lights are needed specifically on fixed obstacles of 45m or less in height, width & length, and placed at the highest practical point. Obstacles of a greater size require additional red lights in order to outline the extent of the obstruction....

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🚨 Rotating Mirror Beacons 🚨

🚨 Rotating Mirror Beacons 🚨

Rotating Mirror Beacons are ideal for many applications as they are bright and draw instant attention from the movement they make. A brilliant alternative to a static or standard flashing signal, these beacons are ideal to use in vehicle, fire and industrial...

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🚨 A little about Beacon Applications

🚨 A little about Beacon Applications

Beacon lights and sounders are used where a visual or audible warning signal is needed to alert, instruct or to inform people. They are used in many different industries/sectors and on many different applications. Here we look at typical application usage in the most...

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🚨 The Importance of Industrial Warning Lights 🚨

Multi-Function Beacons

Did you know, D.G. Controls Pulsed LED Beacons are all multi-function...? Most of the products within our Pulsed LED range are 8 mode multi-function featuring Static, Standard Pulse, Slow Pulse, Fast Pulse, Triple Flash, Random Flash, Strobe and Revolving (Simulated...

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Machinebouw Exhibition, 3rd December 2024

Take the next step in the ever-changing world of mechanical engineering, where innovation and technology meet, at the Machinebouw Exhibition on December 3rd 2024, The Netherlands. This is the meeting place for professionals involved in the design, development and use...

Our PSE LED Beacon Range

Still proving to be an extremely popular range, our PSE LED Beacon offers several different functions within one housing, and is suited to a variety of different applications! Our Pulsed LED Beacon Lamps utilise latest technology LED's to provide a generally low...

A little about Static LED Beacons 🚨

A static warning signal is a continuously lit beacon designed to provide a constant visual alert. These signals play a vital role across a wide range of industries and applications. In factory automations, a static green light can indicate that machinery is running...

A Quality Service

Whatever your query, whether it be Beacons or Sounders, pricing or technical, you can be assured that at D.G. Controls Ltd you will receive nothing other than a quality service.We are a small team, everyone has a name, and everyone knows their stuff. So don’t worry...

🚨 Rotating Beacons

Rotating Beacons are ideal for various applications and are a great alternative to flashing or static warning signals. Applications include vehicles, such as trucks and forklifts, fire and security systems, and area’s where an audible warning might be difficult to...

100% Participation

Imagine for a moment you are a cog or gear, and that your immediate surroundings are a gearbox made up of many gears, or even simpler, think of a kid’s bike with two sprockets (you and one other) and its connecting chain. That is all to say that we do not operate in...

🚦 The U Series Beacon 🚦

Easily configure the U Series beacon by joining units from the T, U, V, and W ranges to build a custom signalling system.• IP65 rated• Low current consumption• 24-36vDC and 115-230vUC available• Pulsed or static options, selectable via the internal jumper• Side and...

💥 Electronic sounders…

These are powerful devices that are perfect for grabbing attention during an emergency situation, from evacuations to fire alarms, they instantly provide warning. They are very versatile units for smaller applications and situations. In large buildings, they signal...

☎️ Do You Need a Telephone Beacon for Your Workplace?

Our range of Telephone Ring Initiated Flashing Beacons are designed for Industrial and Community Welfare applications where a visual indication of a ringing telephone is required. Ideal for applications such as 'Emergency Evacuation' alarm, 'Colour-Coded Personal...

Scanautomatic in Gothenburg 8 – 10 October

Toleka's Jonas Rasmussen and Mikael Pers will be on site to show the future solutions in warning lights and sirens for Industry 4.0 and much more of our product range.Venue: Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, GothenburgStand: B02:41See you there!

Xenon Strobe Beacons

Xenon strobe beacons are a very popular choice of beacon as they produce a very sharp flash of light. They work by discharging the energy stored in a capacitor though a special flash tube filled with xenon gas to produce a very short burst of high intensity light....

A little bit about us….

About D G Controls Ltd: Our products are made in our purpose built factory in Swadlincote, deep in the heart of Derbyshire. Being a British manufacturer has its benefits. Alongside the pride we feel as a family owned company contributing to the British economy, our...

A little about LED & Filament Bulbs..

Here at D.G. Controls Ltd, we are constantly updating the technology in our beacons to make them more energy efficient. With that in mind, we have completed the process of replacing all our filament lamp beacons with LED lamp beacons. How they work: ⚡ LED Lamps In...

🚨 How Does Our LED Obstacle Warning Beacon Meet ICAO Standards?

The deegee SBB LED aviation warning beacon meets ICAO Annex 14 Chapter 6 regulations for low-intensity Type-B fixed obstacle lights. Units with the InfraRed option also comply with the IR requirements set by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency. Measuring...

What is a beacon..?

A warning beacon is a device designed to attract attention to a specific location. Beacons are one of the most beneficial devices that help to provide safety and security to any area or application. There are many different types of warning beacons on the market...

Did you know there are different types of beacons..?

There are different types of beacon lights – a static beacon, a strobe beacon, a rotating beacon and a pulsing beacon. The mode you select for your application will not only aid increased awareness, but it will also help people to know how to react. Looking a little...

Beacons & their applications

Deegee Warning Beacons and Sounders serve a wide range of applications, from Loading Bays and Aviation Warning to Emergency Evacuation, and operate worldwide! Shown here are the deegee  XFL Xenon Strobe Beacon, and PSD Surface Mount LED dual Function Beacon in...

Warning Signal Applications – How to choose the right one 🚨

When choosing a warning signal there are many things that need to be considered for selecting the correct warning signal for the intended environment. Firstly, you need to start by looking at the location of the intended warning signal and consider:-         The IP...

Beacon Lights – A Short Guide

🚨 Beacon Lights - A Short Guide 🚨 Beacon lights play a vital part in providing safety to todays world. They have become a part in our daily lives, providing safety even when we do not realise it. Different types of beacon lights and different colours are utilised in...