Thanks for your thoughts.
Input through the resin is around 300 litres per work day.
The resin is the proper stuff.
Also,further to Alex G point about channeling,I had given the vessel a good shake and also back flushed.
By the way, before I used 2 di vessels the input straight in from merlin was around 33 tds and the resin would last approx 8 weeks.
Cheers, Filllllll