Pneumatic landfill pump cycle counter

A pneumatic landfill pump cycle counter comprising:

• a housing body having an inlet, an outlet, and a passage extending from the inlet to the outlet;
• a spring located within the passage;
• a shuttle comprising a shuttle magnet, the shuttle located within the passage, the shuttle configured to be:
• moved axially by the spring within the passage in an upstream direction to a home position,
• moved axially by one or both of air pressure differential and airflow within the passage in a downstream direction away from the home position to a hold position;
• a counter comprising an element responsive to a magnetic field of the shuttle magnet, the counter configured to increment a numeric count for each complete cycle of the shuttle moving from the home position to the hold position and then back to the home position;
• and
• a brace configured to engage the shuttle to hold the shuttle in the hold position,
• wherein the brace stops the shuttle from moving any further in the downstream direction away from the hold position when the shuttle is moved in the downstream direction by the one or both of the pressure differential and the airflow, but the brace permits the shuttle to be moved in the upstream direction away from the hold position when the force of the spring overcomes the force of the one or both of the pressure differential and the airflow,
• wherein the counter comprises a counter magnet,
• wherein the counter magnet is configured to be magnetically forced by the shuttle magnet to move from a primary position to a secondary position, and
• wherein the counter magnet rests in the primary position when the shuttle magnet is in the home position, and the counter magnet is forced to move from the primary position to the secondary position due to the shuttle magnet moving from the home position toward the hold position.

A pneumatic landfill pump cycle counter comprising:

• a housing body having an inlet, an outlet, and a passage extending from the inlet to the outlet;
• a spring located within the passage;
• a shuttle comprising a shuttle magnet, the shuttle located within the passage, the shuttle configured to be:
• moved axially by the spring within the passage in an upstream direction to a home position,
• moved axially by one or both of air pressure differential and airflow within the passage in a downstream direction away from the home position to a hold position;
• and
• a counter comprising an element responsive to a magnetic field of the shuttle magnet, the counter configured to increment a numeric count for each complete cycle of the shuttle moving from the home position to the hold position and then back to the home position,
• wherein the counter comprises a counter magnet,
• wherein the counter magnet is configured to be magnetically forced by the shuttle magnet to move from a primary position to a secondary position, and
• wherein the counter increments a first half cycle count when the counter magnet moves from the primary position to the secondary position, and the counter increments a second half cycle count when the counter magnet moves from the secondary position to the primary position.