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🔊 Meet the IAS-C Sounder Range!

🔊 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...

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Meet the Team! 🎉

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.ng15staging.uk/company/teamHopefully you’ll have as much fun reading, as we...

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🚦 Meet the STC Stacking Beacon Range!

🚦 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...

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D G Controls Ltd IPN Range

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...

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🚨Meet the XFL Xenon Strobe Beacon Range

🚨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...

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About Us 👏

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...

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🚧 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...

“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...

🚨 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...

🚨 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....

🔊Have you seen our range of Combined Sounder Beacons…?🚨

🔊 It can often be difficult to hear an audible alarm, particularly if there is a lot of background noise. A combined sounder beacon addresses this problem by providing both an audible and visual warning at the same point. A combined sounder beacon is a device that...

🚨 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...

🚨 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...

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...

🚦 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 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...