Robin2:
Have you tried a very short sketch without IFs or FORs that just gets the stepper to move as far as you want using the Accelstepper library?...R
The code posted at the top of this thread uses the Accelstepper library with acceleration and it works flawlessly, it's just that I had hoped to have the option to do it without acceleration.
Grumpy_Mike:
Spot what is wrong with your code now?
I'm not sure that I do. I altered the code so that the speed would be set after the current position was defined (below), but still the motor doesn't turn.
stepper.setCurrentPosition(800);
stepper.setSpeed(3000);
stepper.moveTo(-800);
while(stepper.currentPosition() != -800)
stepper.runSpeed();
MarkT:
Try increasing the acceleration value until the motor mis-steps and then backing
off a bit. Don't imagine a real motor can accelerate at an infinite rate, but rather
find out how fast you can get yours to accelerate in practice - that's the best
you can do.
I think you may be right Mark. It seems like the most practical solution at this point.