Home Lift
Backpack Traction Home Lift
A backpack traction home lift pairs the decoration of a hydraulic home lift with a traction drive. It needs no pit and 2,300 mm of overhead, which is what makes it fit houses a conventional lift cannot. Prawita Karya supplies and installs them in Indonesia.
What to know about backpack traction home lift
The catalogue describes it as a combination of the two kinds of home lift: hydraulic decoration over a traction system. What that buys the building is a lift that needs no pit dug and very little headroom above the top landing.
What it buys you is the look and the finish options of a hydraulic home lift with a traction drive underneath: no oil to maintain, dispose of or leak, and none of the levelling drift that comes as hydraulic oil warms through the day.
The figures that matter for a house are the pit and the overhead, and this model asks for no pit at all and 2,300 mm above the top landing. Whether a particular house clears that is a survey question, not an assumption.
In detail
Up close.
Studio renders, made from photographs of the real equipment.
The car, and the lit stone panel inside it.
Specifications
Technical data
Specifications are configured per project. Figures below are confirmed against the selected equipment during survey and specification.
- Drive
- Traction, with hydraulic-style decoration
- Rated load
- 400 kg
- Rated speed
- 0.4 m/s
- Minimum pit
- 0 mm
- Minimum overhead
- 2,300 mm
Applications
Where it is used
- Houses where no pit can be excavated
- Retrofits into an existing structure
- Low floor-to-ceiling heights at the top landing
- Replacing a hydraulic home lift without redoing the finishes
Why Prawita Karya
What you get
No pit, 2,300 mm overhead
Two figures that decide most retrofits, and both are at the low end.
Traction, not hydraulic
No oil to maintain or dispose of, and no levelling drift as oil warms.
Hydraulic-style finishes
Etched stainless or tempered glass car walls, with colour options.
FAQ
Common questions
What does "backpack" mean on a home lift?
It is the manufacturer's name for the model. The catalogue describes the lift as a combination of a hydraulic and a traction home lift — hydraulic decoration over a traction system — but does not say where the machinery is mounted, so neither do we.
How is this different from a Tenkai home lift?
Tenkai is Prawita Karya's own brand and all four of its models are traction. This is a separate product with its own drive arrangement, supplied alongside them. Which suits a house usually comes down to the pit and overhead available, and how much glazing you want.
Specifying backpack traction home lift for a project?
Send us the building and we will help you get the specification right before it is expensive to change.