Is your Culligan an RO/DI ? Usually drinking water systems are only RO. The ultra pure from RO/DI allows the water to absorb flavors from the container and can get unpleasant tastes.
And to be honest pure RO/DI once exposed to air will not be zero, it will have a slightly low TDS because it bonds with atmospheric contaminants. Ultra pure water is only pure in a vacuum.
What meter do you have that reads this low? Is it a handheld or inline? My handheld won't display less than 0.1 ppm. I would be interested in getting more resolution at the low end of the scale.
2 ppm after running through 2 di chambers. Getting to be time to change some filters. City water here and it runs between 230-317 ppm. I couldn't drink it after that reading.
For those who buy Kroger bottled drinking water, it runs right at 200tds. I haven't checked the others yet but I'm curious to see where they fall. Kroger is only charcoal filtered but Wal Mart claims theirs is RO. I'm picking up a bottle next time I'm there to see how it fares. My bet is that it's pushing 200, even though it claims to be RO
You could do what I did, and add a DI stage between your RO and the carbon polishing filter. That will give you 0 TDS. Mine is s little crowded under the sink, but with a tee and a three way valve with John Guest fittings, you can change between drinking (RO) and fish (RO/DI). I also installed a TDS meter to let me know whether the RO membrane is going, and how the DI is doing.
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