Please help! r/o di setup lost

[Tony40]

OK let me start here Moved from Brooklyn ny to las vegas was real hard breaking down my 75 gal oceanic reef tank and shipping it about 3000 miles well now for some reason i disconnected all lines from my r/o di its a 5 stage and cant remember where the lines go not sure if water feed line goes in to first chamber to 2sd to 3rd to 4th then thats where i'm not sure if it went to a valve first or to the di chamber up top then to the recovery tank this block with 4 lines screwed me up if some one has a illustration for a 5 stage please send it to me tyvm

 

[SSalty]

What is the brand and model?

 

[Tony40]

aquafx went to there website and cant make heads or tails of the diagram

 

[RyanG]

Tony see if the diagram in this link provides a little help.

http://www.apoon.com/ro-di.htm

 

[Tony40]

yes helped a great deal but now after i set it all up seems to be producing way too much water my reading on the tds is 542 in and 521 out dont think it could be right but is producing 5 gals in 19 mins something way wrong it would take me 1/2 hr for less than a gal do you think my membrane went bad ?same amount of waste water as r/o water comes out steady now as which i would almost be a drip before

 

[dustin_P74]

my guess would be a bad membrane

 

[Piggy]

If you didn't keep it wet then the membrane went bad.

 

[Bifferwine]

Yes, there's something wrong if it's coming out with a TDS that high. That high of a TDS isn't getting filtered at all.

 

[Tony40]

checked today before went looking to buy new membrane and tds reads 212 in and 62 out think i'm going to buy new membrane needed to do water change so went to walmart and bought some distilled water does anyone think this would be a problem till i get the r/o straightened out

 

[Bifferwine]

That won't be a problem. A lot of people use bottled water from Walmart or the grocery store. If you read the label, it should say, "Prepared using reverse osmosis" or something to that effect.

 

[Tony40]

Just wanted to say thanks to all for the help. It was in deed a bad membrane. now with new membrane Tds in 165 tds out 4 thankyou all this site rocks!!!

 

[dustin_P74]

welcome, also how many gpd is the new membrane pushing out

 

[Tony40]

it's about a little ove a gal an hour

 

[Tony40]

ok installed new membrane sedimate and carbon filters and tds reads between 19-20 is that acceptable or does it need to be 0-5?