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Audible Warning Signals
Your bedside alarm clock may be far from your best friend, but it serves a purpose - to wake you up. This is a very simple example of an audible signal – audible warning signals and audible alarms are on a completely different scale, which is why it’s important to...
Interesting Facts About Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Light-Emitting Diodes - commonly known as LEDs, are a device that uses semiconductors in order to make light when a current passes over it. An LED light bulb is the most energy efficient bulb on the market today, as it doesn’t emit lots of heat. Actually, it...
Aircraft Warning Lights for Telecommunication Towers
Usually, telecommunication towers are high buildings which are designed for supporting antennas for telecommunication and broadcasting, including television as well as telecommunication. These high towers are threatening to aviation safety because of their location...
IP66 High-Powered LED Beacon NOW available in 48v AC
The Significance of Telephone-Initiated Beacons
When it comes to security and safety, beacons are considered one of the most beneficial devices today. Beacons are used in numerous applications such as power plants, tall buildings or infrastructures, cranes, and vehicles. Furthermore, there are many different kinds...
The Importance of Beacons in Safety & Security
Beacons have played a vital role in safety for many years. Beacon lamps are a signalling tool which are used in numerous conditions, such as in aerial navigation, defensive communications, marine, guiding vehicles and much more. As for seafarers and mariners...
Process Safety Beacons: Preventing Accidents
Accidents can be really hard to prevent, we all know that accidents are very unpredictable. The most common places where accidents happen is on the road, factories, construction sites, industries, and more. One of the most effective preventions of these, or at least...
The Growth of Beacon Technology into Different Sectors
The Next Thing in Beacon Technology? Beacon Use in Transportation Safety is always the number one priority in every industry, especially in regards to transportation as it involves a massive responsibility to travellers security. The use of beacons recently have...
The Key to Loading Dock Safety
Working on a loading dock can present a wide variety of hazards for workers. Aside from that, it also poses special safety matters. Workers, on the other hand, need to extra careful about what they’re doing. Most importantly they should be aware of other persons...
Warning Lights for Commercial & Construction Vehicles
Utility work lights for both commercial and construction vehicles are considered as a must-have in safety equipment, not only for the emergency service personnel but also for people who do their every day works at the roadside. The main goal of any utility work light...
Send in the big guns!
For the more aggressive environment, the cast aluminium enclosures from the deegee beacon range are perfect. Heavy weight EPC castings, powder-coated white, are available in several sizes: the Q which has a 91 x 95mm foot-print, the M which has a 140 x 150mm...
C-Series launched to great reception
deegee’s recent exhibitions in Hannover and the UK have been the platform for launching the new C-Series range of beacons; and the over-whelming response has been extremely positive and complimentary, both about the styling of the product and the performance and...
Meet and Greet
April proved to be an exceptionally busy time for the deegee sales team, as the same week Jon was in Hannover for the 10th year at Hannover Messe, the UK sales team took deegee to MACH, the machinery exhibition, at the NEC, Birmingham for the 1st time. deegee has...
deegee exhibits at Mach 08
deegee are exhibiting for the first time at Mach 08, at the NEC, Birmingham 21st – 25th April 2008, coinciding with their presence at Hannover Messe, Germany, where they have exhibited for over 10 years. Focussing on the industrial automation sector, deegee will be...
New deegee Beacons Hitting Hannover 2008
deegee is once again exhibiting at Hannover Messe 21 – 25th April 2008. deegee has exhibited at this show for over 10 years, and has always used it as a forum to launch new beacons and sounders to the market. Naturally 2008 proves no exception. A totally new style...
Making the Difference
There are over 4000 beacon and sounder products in the Deegee range, and most of these items are available to dispatch same or next day. We have been told by our customers who already make use of this service that it can make the difference between success and...
EuroLED 2008
Whilst preparing for this year's EuroLED show, 4th-5th June 2008, I fell over a video summarizing last year's event. Of particular interest to us is the number of times that our products were shown. This is confirmation that our range is indeed innovative and of...
Sales Team expansion
Since 2001 D. G. Controls Ltd has been recognised as an Investor in People. Part of this Standard is to develop strategies to improve the performance of the organisation. D. G. Controls Ltd believes that a big part of this is to identify, recognise and develop team...
Health & Safety
D. G. Controls Ltd have recently taken the step to engage Peninsula Business Services to oversee the Health & Safety of the business. Health & Safety being such an important aspect of the day-to-day running of a business, it was felt that this could be well...
MIH Traffic Lights and SBU Single Colour units
Following a recent study at D. G. Controls Ltd, the LED version of the MIH Traffic Light and the SBU Single Colour Unit has been upgraded by fitting a plain polished lens plate, in preference to the ribbed lens previously fitted. Given the application of the unit, and...
deegee No Longer Supplies RS
As of the end of August this year deegee ceased to supply RS Components Limited with our range of Warning Signals. This brought to an end a long-standing relationship that has benefited both parties. All products are available, and will continue to be available,...
Multi-Function (MFE) LED Beacons
Multi-status indication from the same beacon is sometimes necessary due to restrictions on space. deegee has long had in its portfolio the MFE multi-function beacon, an LED beacon which has 360º viewing. A single MFE LED beacon can give 8 different warning signals,...
deegee is 40 Years old today!
Today (21st July 2007) sees D. G. Controls Limited celebrating its 40th year in the beacon and sounder manufacturing business. Always having been a local business, originally based in Burton upon Trent, the existing site in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, was purpose-built...
Beacon Post-Mount
Another exciting introduction to the deegee mounting accessories portfolio is the Beacon Post-Mount, officially launched at Hannover Messe 2007. This uses a patented fixing system with anti-rotation properties, to fix many of the deegee beacons onto standard posts. ...
EuroLED
deegee lights the way at EuroLED 2007. Over 60% of deegee products are now either LED based or available as an LED option. It is a sector which is growing at around 40% per year. To this end deegee were pleased to exhibit the beacon and sounder range at EuroLED 2007,...
deegee beacon doctors the tardis
It is really difficult getting pictures of products in action - catalogue shots are so bland. Well, in an attempt to re-dress the balance we have a section on our website displaying a number of our products in action - hopefully with more to come - see here for...
International Fire Expo – Open for business
The doors are open on this year's International Fire Expo. It seems an absolute age since the last International Fire Expo - 2 years in fact! - but the wait is now over, the products are ready, the stand is built and we're ready for our first visitors of the week....
Did You Know
.........Every time you receive beacons and sounders from deegee you help the environment? That's right! And it's all because as a fundamental part of deegee's environmental policy, all packaging from goods coming into the company is saved and is re-used as secondary...
3-Colour LED Beacon
Causing a huge amount of interest at Hannover Messe 2007 was the new 3-colour LED Beacon (SBU/UNI-LED/Red/Amber/Green) from deegee. Using sets of LEDs which allow Red, Amber or Green signals from the same unit, the beacon is perfect where space is at a premium. ...
Visitor numbers exceed expectations
We had a great opportunity to meet many of our deegee distributors in Hannover, Germany, at the Messe 2007 exhibition. Whilst the organisers were reporting visitor increases of around 10%, deegee went better than that with visitor enquiries up 15% on our 2006 show. ...