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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide generator docking stations and transfer switches?
Generator Docking Stations & Transfer Switches
Yes.
KDT provides generator docking stations and manual or automatic transfer switches, the connection points that let a mobile generator power a building safely, along with the matched generator, the cables and licensed electricians to make the connection.
Typical configuration
- Rating
- About 100–1,200 A, 120/208 V or 277/480 V 3-phase (typical)
- Connections
- Color-coded 16-series camlock inlets; many include a load bank tap
- Transfer
- Manual (MTS) or automatic (ATS), service-entrance rated where needed
- Safety
- Phase rotation indicator, break-before-make transfer, lockable door
- Enclosure
- Outdoor NEMA 3R-type, wall or pad mounted
- Installation
- By electricians licensed as the jurisdiction requires, inspected per local code
When the grid goes down, a building with its own generator connection point gets power back fast. One without it waits for an electrician to open the switchgear, land cables on lugs and work out how to isolate it from the utility. A docking station is that connection point: a weatherproof enclosure mounted outside the building with color-coded camlock inlets, often with a transfer switch built in, wired to the building's main or critical panel. Pull the generator up, plug in the camlocks, check phase rotation, throw the switch.
The transfer switch is the safety part. It disconnects the building from the utility before connecting it to the generator, so power can't backfeed onto the lines and kill a lineworker, and so the generator isn't damaged when grid power comes back. Manual transfer switches are thrown by hand; automatic ones sense the outage and switch on their own when a generator is parked on site full time.
KDT works both sides. Before hurricane season we survey the facilities that matter (shelters, clinics, water and lift stations, EOCs, radio and cell sites, fuel stations), record the generator size, voltage, connection type and cable length each one needs, and can arrange installation of docking stations and transfer switches by licensed electricians. During the incident we deliver the matched generator and cables and make the connection.
Available as
- Docking stations (camlock connection only)
- Docking stations with an integral manual transfer switch
- Automatic transfer switches for on-site standby generators
- Load bank connection points for testing
- Pre-event facility power surveys
- Temporary tie-ins where no docking station exists
What's included
- Facility survey and a connection record for each site
- Supply and licensed installation arranged
- Matched generator and feeder cables
- Connection, phase rotation check and switching
- Fueling and service for the duration
- Switch-back to utility power and demob
Where it's used
- Emergency shelters and schools
- Clinics and nursing homes
- Water, wastewater and lift stations
- EOCs, dispatch centers, radio and cell sites
- Fuel stations and grocery stores that serve the community
- Contractor and remote facilities
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide generator docking stations and transfer switches?
Yes. We supply docking stations and transfer switches, arrange their installation by licensed electricians, and bring the matched generator and cables to make the connection when the power goes out.
What is a generator docking station?
A permanent outdoor connection panel with camlock inlets wired into a building's electrical system, usually through a transfer switch, so a mobile generator can be plugged in quickly and safely without opening the building's switchgear.
Why do I need a transfer switch?
It isolates the building from the utility before the generator takes over. That prevents backfeed that can electrocute utility crews and protects the generator when grid power returns. Plugging a generator into a building outlet is never safe.
Can you survey our facilities before hurricane season?
Yes. We record each site's generator size, voltage, connection type and cable needs, so when an event hits, the right generator and cables go to the right building.
Manual or automatic transfer switch?
Manual costs less and suits mobile generators that arrive after an outage. Automatic suits sites with a generator on site full time, where power has to come back with nobody there.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.