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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...
Beacon Sounder Combinations
Are you familiar with beacon sounder combinations? What are Beacon Sounder Combinations and How Do They Work? Beacon sounder combinations are warning devices that have a dual function. As a matter of fact, they are using an audible sounder in order to figure audio...
The Importance of Beacons in Public Safety
To help the people in public places be aware of their surroundings, beacons are purposely made to warn, attract attention, and notify people in certain locations. These devices carry the message of the viewer, as well as providing signals on how the people should...
PSU Pulsed LED Status Indicator
Pulsed LED uni-directional Status Indicators now available. Extensively configurable, comprising a robust black polycarbonate base and hood with plain clear polycarbonate lens. Clear-package LEDs and clear lens eliminates the problem of the indicator appearing to be...
Are Beacons a Safety Solution For The Construction Industry?
Today, most people are using technology in their everyday lives. In fact, technology makes our lives much easier and more efficient, without us even realising a lot of the time. If you’re walking in the street, you will notice lots of people holding their smartphones,...
Loading Bays Explained
Have you ever been to a storage warehouse? If so, then most probably you’ve already seen lots of warehouse equipment, busy workers unloading, loading, packing, and checking goods, as well as loads of storage containers. Actually, the majority of customs, transport...
The Common Uses of Electronic Sounders & Beacons
As we all know, ‘Preparation is key’, especially when it comes to our safety. Being able to somehow prevent any unexpected and unwanted circumstances, being prepared for the protection and security of oneself is a must. That is why using warning signals like beacons...
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. ...
Largest ever product launch for D.G. Controls!
2007 represents our 40th year in business as a privately owned independent company and brings with it the largest ever product launch in the history of D.G. Controls Limited. With introductions into virtually all corners of the range, these items add depth to our...
Beacons get brighter
D. G. Controls has incorporated three products into one for its latest beacon upgrade The IPN range of small LED panel boxes from D.G. Controls has been enhanced by the introduction of a STOP/GO variant. This has been designed specifically for traffic management in...
New traffic lights fit in narrow spaces
3-way Traffic Light IPN/018/Red/Amber/Green has been developed by DG Controls following success of the 2-way Traffic Light Following on from the success of the IPN 2-way Traffic Light (IPN/002/Red/ Green), a request for a 3-way Traffic Light in the range was fulfilled...
Traffic Lights but not as we know them!
MIH/2U and 3U Traffic Light beacons from deegee are proving a popular choice for some quite diverse applications, thanks to their robust build and excellent light output In addition to the typical loading bay and site-traffic signalling applications, the MIH/2U and...
Ultra-low power LED beacon ‘sees’ everything
DG Controls launches the latest addition to its deegee beacon range, the new ULP-LED beacon ULP-LED has a full 360degree all-round and 180degree all-over viewing angle, but uses less than 1/6th of the power of the equivalent filament lamp version. Available as either...
Long-life static beacon
The newest addition to the deegee range of low energy beacons is the long life SB_/CFT Fitting the E, G, H, J, K and T deegee housings, the SB_/CFT is a great solution for applications where low power consumption is essential, but without compromise on brightness....