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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide solar powered light towers?
Solar Powered Light Towers
Yes.
KDT provides solar powered light towers: trailer-mounted on off-road tires, with LED lights running on solar power and a diesel generator as an option. It is our light tower with more capability, delivered, placed and checked on your incident.
Typical configuration
- Trailer
- Trailer-mounted on off-road tires
- Lighting
- LED fixtures, about 150–400 W total (typical)
- Power
- Solar array charging a battery bank
- Generator
- Diesel generator as an option
- Battery
- Lithium or AGM bank, typically 2–5 nights of autonomy from full charge
- Mast
- Telescoping, about 20–30 ft (typical)
- Controls
- Dusk-to-dawn photocell, timer and dimming (typical)
A solar powered light tower is a light tower that charges itself. KDT's unit is trailer-mounted on off-road tires, with LED lights on a telescoping mast, a solar array and a battery bank. The panels charge the batteries during the day and the LEDs run off them at night. No fuel, no exhaust and no engine running next to sleeping areas.
These towers typically also carry a diesel generator as an option, and ours does. That makes it the same job as our diesel LED light tower with more capability: silent solar running when the sun cooperates, and the generator to recharge the batteries or carry the lights when it doesn't.
They fit the places where a fuel-only tower is a problem: sleeping areas, remote gates and drop points that are hard to reach with a fuel truck, rough access roads where the off-road trailer matters, sensitive spill shorelines, and long-duration sites where fueling every few days adds up. KDT places them for sun exposure as well as coverage, sets the panels and mast, and checks battery state on our rounds.
Solar output drops under heavy smoke and long overcast stretches. That is what the diesel generator option is for, and we mix solar and diesel towers so the critical spots never go dark.
Available as
- Solar powered light tower, solar and battery only
- Solar powered light tower with the diesel generator option
- Mixed with diesel LED light towers for the largest work areas
What's included
- Delivery and pickup at the incident
- Placement for sun exposure and coverage
- Mast raising, aiming and timer setup
- Battery checks on regular rounds
- Fueling of the diesel generator option when it runs
- Moves as the camp or the work changes
Where it's used
- Sleeping areas and quiet zones
- Remote gates, roadblocks and checkpoints
- Drop points and spike camps far from fuel
- Shoreline and staging areas on spill response
- Long-term perimeters and parking lots
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide solar powered light towers?
Yes. KDT's solar powered light tower is trailer-mounted on off-road tires, with LED lights on solar power and a diesel generator as an option. We deliver, set up and check them for the length of the incident.
Do solar light towers have a generator?
They typically offer a diesel generator as an option, and ours does. The generator recharges the batteries or carries the lights when the sun can't.
Do solar light towers work under wildfire smoke?
Heavy smoke and long overcast spells cut charging. That is what the diesel generator option covers, and we keep diesel towers available for the spots that can't go dark.
What is the difference between a solar light tower and a diesel light tower?
It is the same job with more capability. The solar powered tower runs silent and fuel-free on its batteries, and with the diesel generator option it can still run when solar can't keep up.
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.