How to light up weak laser?

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

I tried a quick search here for “frame diode” and got this as the first link:

Laser on during FRAME operation

Is there a way to have the laser on very low power during the FRAME operation, to assist with placement of the material prior to pressing play? I confess to have only spent a few hours working with the software. I have tried positioning the laser, then using the Console to turn on the laser. So far I can only get the laser to stay on without a move operation. I have a home made GRBL 1.1f based machine with TTL/PWM supported laser power output. It’s running on an Arduino Uno and GRBLDuino Shi…

@Rick

Holding the ‘Shift’ key then ‘Frame’ will turn the beam on to the power value set in the Laser Fire setting while the frame runs to allow better placement.