Hi, erith, I've been setting my pure freedom diy unit up this week and I had a similar problem, my ppm before R O is 450, after the RO it's 30, and after the DI it was 7 ( brand new system) . On the advice of justin from clean-n-clear I changed the resin which was supplied as he said it may be duff ( which it was) I'm now producing 000pm with new resin. Hope this helps