GRBL / Easel / Laser option

I have a 1000mm X-Carve with the 3.8w JTech Laser addon. I read the Jtech site which suggested using their custom fork of GRBL to accept S-commands without pauses, which got me reading and ultimately interested in GRBL 1.1 which supports laser mode natively. Now that Easel supports GRBL 1.1, I figured why not. I took note of my settings and uploaded GRBL 1.1, then took care to restore my settings afterwards. After uploading GRBL1.1 , M03 SXXX doesn’t seem to do anything – whether its 10 or 255. Spindle max RPM ($30=255) is set.

Additionally, it seems that with GRBL 1.1, the nightly UGS moves the steppers incredibly slowly. UGS 1.0.9 moves them normally (as does easel) but UGS 1.0.9 seems to have some quirks with GRBL 1.1. I was interested in the UGS nightly builds for better support from PicEngrave+Laser before I pick that up…

Is there a magic combo I’m missing out on?

Thanks for reading!

2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $1=255
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $2=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $3=3
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $4=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $5=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $6=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $10=115
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $11=0.020
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $12=0.002
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $13=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $20=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $21=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $22=1
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $23=3
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $24=25.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $25=750.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $26=250
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $27=1.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $30=255
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $31=0
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $32=1
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $100=40.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $101=40.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $102=188.976
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $110=8000.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $111=8000.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $112=500.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $120=500.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $121=500.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $122=50.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $130=790.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $131=790.000
2017/05/09 20:10:30 - $132=100.000