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Installation & Maintenance of Visual Warning Beacons
Since warning signals are emerging as a necessity in the community, it is also essential to be sure about their installation as well as the proper way to maintain these devices. When installing hazard warning beacons, they should be placed in the most...
How To Choose The Right Warning Signal?
Choosing the right warning signal for a particular environment is easy if you know where to start. Different Warning Signal Applications Warning signals are generally used to increase safety in a certain area or location. They also help to prevent accidents in...
The Benefits of LED Lamps
LED lamps are becoming increasingly popular due to their efficiency and durability. They are mostly utilized as beacon lights due to their powerful illumination capabilities along with other promising advantages. LED Lamps: Explained LED – also known as Light Emitting...
The Importance of Amber & Yellow Beacon Lights
Yellow or amber beacon lights can be seen in numerous places, covering a wide range of different applications. They are also frequently found in roads and airport runways, among other places. Flashing Amber Lights For Road Safety Yellow or amber beacon lights are most...
Types & Usage of Industrial Warning Lights
Industrial warning lights are almost everywhere, but what exactly are they for? Flashing Strobe Lights A strobe light, also known as a stroboscopic lamp is used to emit regular flashes of light. Flashing strobe lights feature a high signalling effect through bursting...
Exciting Times at deegee!
Due to increasing demands, we are pleased to announce the recruitment of 4 additional team members! 3 of our new team members have been placed in the factory, providing assistance to the Manufacturing Team in the production and assembly of our products. Our entire...
LED Status Signals For Better Efficiency
LED status signals are illuminating devices that come in different lens colours, powered by LEDs or light-emitting diodes. LEDs are a semiconductor light source that produces light when an electric current flows through them....
When To Use Beacons?
What is Beacon? A beacon is a device that is tailored to grab attention to certain locations. One good example of this is the lighthouse that actually offers fixed locations that can be utilized to route around impediments. In order to offer relevant and...
A Comprehensive Guide to Audible Warning Signals
Audible warning signals can help to reduce incidents in a community and they allow people to become more aware of what is happening around them. Mostly, we can find this type of warning signal in places where there is a lot of traffic. They warn us of approaching...
Your Guide To Beacon Lights
Beacon lights can be found almost everywhere. They have become a part of our daily lives, but most of us are still not aware of their importance. Different types of beacon lights can each have their own unique uses. Each of these plays an important role in different...
Day 1 – Live Below the Line
Day 1 of Live Below the Line is complete, and no tummies are rumbling, although I did have a wobble about 4.30pm so decided it was time to make the evening meal! Today was meatballs and pasta day. I based the meatballs recipe on my usual, but DRASTICALLY stripped, as...
EN54-23:2010 – Deadline moved to 31st December 2013
The coexistence period for EN 54-23 ended at the beginning of March 2013 meaning that "Visual Alarm Devices" (VAD) or "Beacons" sold for notifying a person to an Fire Alarm are required to be CE marked to EN54-23:2010. Due to the shortage of certified products in the...
How much is £20 worth? Live Below the Line
So the shops have been hit, the £20 note has been broken, and there’s a few quid still in the purse for the “renewals” later in the week. My eldest son (5 years old) has never been SO excited to see a pile of shopping as I laid it out to photograph, and then we set it...
Life (and shopping!) is all about choices – Live Below the Line
In preparing the menus for our Live Below the Line challenge, I have learnt a lot about myself and my shopping psyche. Having 3 small children I visit the supermarket probably 2 or 3 times a week to buy bread & milk, although I can often spend a minimum of £15-20...
New online delivery communications
We have worked hard to improve your delivery experience and have, following a thorough review, selected a new carrier for standard despatches. One of the key improvements for you is that we now have a new way for you to check your delivery status! Once you have placed...
Live Below the Line
D. G. Controls Ltd has always been run according to the highest ethical and moral values, and is well-aware of its wider social accountability; to use the correct terminology, its “Corporate & Social Responsibility” or CSR. Being a long-established business, but...
Tech Thursday – REACH (for the stars!)
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) REACH came into force on 1st June 2007, essentially an environmental and health & safety initiative to...
Congratulations to the team!
D. G. Controls Ltd has been an “Investor in People” since 2000, and has always recognised the importance of having well-trained staff in its teams. Internal and external training-providers are used, and all staff are encouraged to develop themselves within their...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 3 – Colour
This is the final instalment in our short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we will briefly looked at what we define light to be and went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...
Tech Thursday – EN54-23
What is EN54-23? EN54-23 or to give it its full title “Fire detection and fire alarm systems – Part 23: Fire alarm devices – Visual alarm devices”, was produced to standardise the requirements, in terms of construction, robustness and performance of warning beacons...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 2 – Luminous Intensity and its measurement
This is the second instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we briefly looked at what we define light to be went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In this second part...
Light – Part 1 – Units and definitions
This is the first instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In this first part we will briefly look at what we define light to be and go on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...
D.G. Controls Limited gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis
Swadlincote based D.G. Controls Limited gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis A Swadlincote based firm received a business boost from TV Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis. Last week, Jon Whiten, Managing Director of D.G. Controls Limited, tweeted Theo about his...
deegee @ Tekniikka 2012 – Jyväskylä, Finland
Electronics - Automation - Maintenance - Energy - Environment - NEW Nanotecnology Professionals of the industry from all over Finland will meet again at the Tekniikka 2012 exhibition at the Congress and Exhibition Center Jyväskylä Paviljonki. Organised since 1979,...
deegee @ Alihankintamessut 2012 – Tampere, Finland
The international Subcontracting Trade Fair will be held between 18th and 20th September 2012 at the Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre. The subcontracting trade fair event of industry that Tampere has hosted since 1988, will now be held for the 22nd time....
deegee @ Skydd, Stockholm Sweden
Toleka, the Swedish distributor of the deegee beacon brand, are exhibiting at SKYDD at the Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm, from 18th to 21st September 2012. In addition to the fire and emergency DUPLEX products, almost the full deegee beacon and sounder range will be...
deegee @ Mittalaitepäivät 2012 – Helsinki, Finland
The deegee brand is to be represented at Mittalaitepäivät 2012 by long-standing partner Elektro-Tukku. The show runs from 29th to 30th August 2012 and the products may be found on Stand H-6.
Website Launch
For us, this is probably the most exciting news in quite some time. After many, many weeks work, we today launch our new consolidated website. As well as a fresh theme, we have integrated the various sites and news postings into a single site for easy navigation. One...
Hannover Messe 2012
Back in Hall 8 for 2012, D. G. Controls Ltd are looking forward to welcoming you to see the full range of deegee beacons and sounders at Hannover Messe between 23rd and 27th April 2012. You can find us in Hall 8, Stand C29. Follow the link...
ISO 9001 : 2008
The same week in November that some of the deegee team were exhibiting at SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg, the rest of the business hosted a UL auditor for the triennial ISO9001:2008 audit. During triennial audits the complete Quality Management System is interrogated,...