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speeding thing up with m220

Posted by jbernardis 
speeding thing up with m220
October 27, 2012 01:32AM
I use marlin firmware, and occasionally I will use the m220 command to speed things up a bit. As I was reading the skeinforge documentation about bridging, something occurred to me. I think that by using m220, I am changing my feed rate but not my flow rate; essentially I'm thinning out the plastic. I think that if my intent is just to hurry things along, then I should be using m220 in tandem with m221. I tried looking through the marlin source code, and although I didn't find a definitive answer, it did reinforce my thinking.

Am I right here?
Re: speeding thing up with m220
October 27, 2012 02:47PM
Nope it's fine to use m220 on it's own - it scales everything.
Re: speeding thing up with m220
October 28, 2012 12:19AM
Thanks - I thought it would have to. None of my prints have failed because of speeding things up. I just thought I was on thin ice. But I guess not.
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