new ro membranes need time to flush through. most ro's have between 95-98% rejection rate, so take you tap tds reading minus the 95-98% and you should get your output tds of the ro. If the resin you have is new then as stated the tds should be zero, do you have the di canister the wrong way round, as they have an in and an out, getting them wrong would result in the problem you have here. hth,