Stepper "setSpeed" problem

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Hi the routine attached is to drive a stepper motor approx 1/2 turn forward and back again just once when pin3 goes HIGH.

When using "setSpeed (1000) the motor runs fine (no trigger yet it just bounces) and the serial output correctly shows pin3 status and motor speed.....when I change it to "setSpeed (motSpeed) the motor fails to run but no error msg.
Also the print routine only runs once.

motSpeed is set from the if/else statement and this seems to be working fine

What am I missing please?

Thanks in advance Tezzatron

#include <Stepper.h>

#define STEPS_PER_MOTOR_REVOLUTION 32   
#define STEPS_PER_OUTPUT_REVOLUTION 32 * 32  //2048  

Stepper small_stepper(STEPS_PER_MOTOR_REVOLUTION, 8, 10, 9, 11);

int  Steps2Take;
int  switchPin = 3;
int  motSpeed; 
void setup()  
{

  Serial.begin (9600);
  pinMode (switchPin, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(switchPin, LOW);
    
  }

void loop()  

{
int pinState = digitalRead(switchPin);
    Serial.print ("Pin Status ");
    Serial.println (pinState);
    delay (1000);
     
    if (pinState == HIGH) { motSpeed = 1000; }
    else { motSpeed = 0; }
    Serial.print ("Motor Speed ");
    Serial.println (motSpeed);
         
      Steps2Take  =  STEPS_PER_OUTPUT_REVOLUTION;  
  small_stepper.setSpeed(1000);
  small_stepper.step(Steps2Take);
  delay(1000);
  
    Steps2Take  =  - STEPS_PER_OUTPUT_REVOLUTION;  
  small_stepper.setSpeed(1000);
  small_stepper.step(Steps2Take);
  delay(1000);


}
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#define STEPS_PER_OUTPUT_REVOLUTION 32 * 32  //2048

2048 ?
I read no further I am afraid

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  pinMode (switchPin, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(switchPin, LOW);

You are explicitly turning off the internal pullup resistor. This REQUIRES that you have external pullup or pulldown resistors. Do you?

Where do you actually use the value in motSpeed to control the speed of the motor?

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What should the stepper do when you tell it to move 1024 steps at speed 0? How long do you think that will take?