Ok...i posted before with my problem:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52032
Since then i spent some time on the phone with Keling, and he offered to just take all my stuff back since i think he was sick of me not being able to figure it out since according to him i'm the only one to ever have a problem with it and everyone else gets it to work.
I didn't want to just return the stuff and be done...so we agreed that i would send him my cnc controller/steppers, and "upgrade" to the preassembled/tested kit. Well this proved to not be a "assembled and tested" kit as advertised...becuase whenever i hooked everything up and powered it up, the motors didn't even lock. So immediately i'm happy with my new upgrade and smaller bank account.
I cracked the case open, and the wiring wasn't complete! Rather than splicing wires into the small controller boxes, whoever built the thing just tried stuff 2 wires into a hole meant for 1...it didn't clamp...and just fell out. So this had me concerned so i went through the rest of the wiring and found another instance of this.
So i fixed that and re-power up...and now 2 axis lock at least. So now i move on to seeing if this will talk to my computer since the last one that i assembled would not. I go through all the steps carefully checking everything...and to my surprise when i tried to jog an axis is worked! for a second anyway.
The problems are:
1. the steppers step wherever they want...not taking even sized steps
2. the steppers will stop working after a few seconds...and i have to power down the controller and power it back up for them to work again.
3. only x and y work
4. the power of the steppers is slim to none. If i hold onto the stepper shaft and tell it to jog, the stepper can't overpower my holding it. There is no way it'd be powerful enough to move the mill table.
5. when i sent back my steppers, my new kit came with three nema 23's...instead of 2 of them, and one larger one. The motor mount kit i bought is for 2 23's and the one larger...so even if i get this thing working i guess i'll have to yet again buy another stupid stepper.
so anyway...any help/suggestions you may have would be great. I'm about ready to just sell the entire setup and be done with it...as its basically about a $3k paperweight at this point and it laughs at me everytime i walk past it.