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Our business was founded in 2001 when we won our first contract to supply several thousand dusk to dawn switches to one of the largest outdoor advertisers in the UK with our original electronic photocell design .
Acetek has been operating in the outdoor signage industry designing new optical and electronic ideas since 2001. We now have a range of professional electronic energy saving photocell dusk to dawn twilight light sensitive sensor switches in different voltages that are used in all types of industry, These include security, home & garden, solar, marine, car and caravaning and of course signage. In addition to these photocells we stock a range of accessories often need to install them. We also supply pre-wired energy saving high frequency fluorescent gear-trays and LED back-lit systems plus a range of electrical and safety items to complete the installation. Although this site is limited to the supply of photocells and accesories we have designed and manufactured many other electronic products including: Motorised scrolling sign, GSM fault reporting, Time and temperature display, Traffic light sequencer.
Design & Manufacturing
We have been designing and manufacturing in the UK
for the past ten years and will continue to for the foreseeable future. With our computer aided design (CAD) equipment
we are able to produce designs for metal fabrication, Circuit board design including programming and upgrading our own integrated
circuits. To be competitive in this industry and offer the best value designs,we often source our high specification components
from around the world
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Above are the internal mechanics of two photocells. The mechanical one on the left can be purchased for a little less than our electronic design on the right. Both products often look the same when packaged in their moulded cases and will work perfectly well, but after a year the one on the left will have cost you more. The reason is simple. A light dependant resistor controls a small heating element during the day to arch a bi-metal switch open to turn the lights off, where as our electronic design has no heating element and uses a silicon based light sensor and a "Micro controller" chip to control a Silver-Tin-Oxide relay and all from a micro energy power supply. The saving on energy of our unit will pay the difference in the first year.
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