An eight wire stepper motor is actually a four phase stepper motor rather than two phase, so you get the four phases and iether connect them in series or parallel.
If you have a look at the SY60 datasheet it will show you how this is done.

http://www.slidesandballscrews.com/p...H86-3008BF.pdf

Quote Originally Posted by cncezee View Post
how do you wire a stepper motor into parallel?????