Your RO system will tell you when it’s unhappy. Listen for these clues: water pressure drops, the water tastes salty or flat, or you see white flakes in your glass. Those flakes? That’s calcium scale—your membrane is waving a white flag.
Another dead giveaway: the water starts smelling like rotten eggs. That’s sulfur bacteria having a party inside your filters. Change them, or your kitchen will smell like a swamp.