Ramps 1.4 with LCD and SD support (Page 4 of 4)

hold up. are X+ and Y+ actually working? reading triggered when pressed, reading open when not?

Only jump these:
X-
Y-
Z+ (unless this is taken up by a switch, I'm not familiar with auto leveling)

Plug switches into these:
X+
Y+
Z-

I didn't realize the time, I have to head to work in about 30 min. Will you be available to continue to help tomorrow?
And thank you for your help so far,
    Don

So what are your thoughts on my next step? I do have a question about the endstops. How are they suppose to work. They will be open allowing the motor to move until a motor hits it and stops it. Then for the other direction it should also be open and it will stop a prescribed amount of MM then stop at that point? If so I can try to figure out the combination I need. Also do I need to work with changing the endstop in the firmware to state open when the switch is not activated? I assume the motors should be moving toward the X and Y axis endstops and also moving toward 0 and when move away from endstop it should be travel toward 200.
Another question I have is the actual steps per movement of the motors. The firmware we are using have a different setup. It states:
DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   {88,88,2268,138}
where as my original press firmware states: DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   {80,80,400,96.09355} would this cause the studdering of the stepper motors or non movement at all on the z axis? Ill be in an out all day today so once you respond I will try what you think we should do.
Thanks

2268 should not be too high...see this link:

http://www.soliforum.com/post/51771/#p51771

You can try 400, but your Z movement will be scaled down greater than 5 times...

Z should always be 1/8 if it is a screw drive.. You will not see any difference in 1/16 to 1/32 on the Z since it simply controls the layer height it will have no real impact on precision or print quality.

Ok so heres an update. I have follow all the supplied links you guys offered. Some nice information. But unfortunately, I still do not have a working printer. I manually figured out the steps per unit and with solidoodle saying it should be 400, that means my z stepper is a 1/4 and it had a 2mm z screw. I have not see any other manufacture use a 2mm pitch. So I measured it, it came out to two then I punched in the numbers 200x4=800/2(pitch)= 400. So I removed the two outer jumpers to make it a 1/4 step. I tried the z axis and nothing. I change the firmware to 400, and all it does is light tap/click but doesn't move. I can hook the z axis motor to the x or y driver and it moves fine. I swap the driver from one to the other and z control still doesn't work. As far as the end stops I believe I have them figured out. I used the original firmware to modify the one I am using. I can home y and x, but after they click the switch and home then they are very sporatic moving the other direction. I have to cycle the power to get them to move again. Possible I have a bad component.
Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

For those that are following this thread, the solidoodle is a 24 volt system and the ramps is 12 volts. To cure this issue,  I have swapped over to a 12 headed bed, 12 extruder heater, and a 12 volt atx power supply.