Good point spruce. Iam going to tinker about with it tomorrow,,, 👍
Perhaps a good flush and adjust waste to pure ratio until you get the lowest tds output from the membrane.
At 370ppm your output of 15 is still a rejection rate of 96%. At 310 your rejection rate is 95%.
For it to jump up from 7 to 15 in a week would appear to be a waste to pure ratio adjustment needed.
I'm not saying it is but it's where I would start.
Yours is a typical example of needing to watch your membrane output because of your high tap water tds. Going from 7 to 15 theoretically doubles the cost of resin.
For me my 4040 has a rejection rate of 97% with a tds of 3. I could let mine increase to 10. At 10 I would be running at a rejection rate of 92%. It would mean my resin costs would increase by about £45 a year.
While it isn't much compared to the cost of a new membrane, I loathe changing resin. The other issue is that resin has become scarce as I have always used Tulsion.
It's all about"economies of scale."
Do I spend £326 on a new Axeon hf5 membrane to save £45 a year on resin, bearing in mind that those resin costs are going to increase (escalate) as the membrane's efficiency deteriorates.
My membrane is 7 years old btw.