TDS of Tap Water

I am also on the NW side of town and tested my water with a TDS meter and got around 140-150ppm. Thats a rough guess, i havent checked it in awhile.

 

135 to 145 on NE side, that is what it was the other day when I looked.

 

Marion water sucks. It is nasty tasting and even with a water softener I am getting 400+ (YES, over 400) on my water coming into the RO/DI unit. Coming out is a nice zero and I actually tested with 2 different meters and got the same results. Our water is terrible and the amount of water that I can get through the RO/DI unit is sad compared to how long the filter media lasts. I mean, I got about 200-250 gallons of clean water out of brand new filters, and then my DI resin is just about shot. Pathetic!

 

I have Well water and I have never tested my TDS when doing saltwater,but back when I did discus it was in the 400 range. I don't use and DI unit,but my TDS coming strait out of R/O is 4ppm.. I think that works great for me.

 

Just thought I'd chime in here. We are on rural water (Poweshiek). and our tap checks at 85. I'm using a TDS meter from airwaterice....

 

The way my RO was set up I am not going through my last carbon filter but straight from the membrane to the DI. Would I get more out of my DI if I ran it through the carbon first?

 

Yes I think you would! As it stands you are letting your DI filter what the Carbon would be.

 

I run my Ro/Di set up the same as above except that I have a 10 micron sediment pre-filter>5 micron sediment>2x 5 micron Carbon> RO> 2x Di. MY tap water TDS in Moline runs from 80-120. Now when I was in Phoenix the TDS was a minimum of 600 and after a rain storm it would jump upwards of 900-1000 TDS and that was hard on the filters.

 

I think I read the question wrong. I thought he ment there was no carbon filter at all. Reading things on mobile device is not good.. lol It goes like this sediment filter, carbon, membrane then DI.