Bugger! turns out its 150Vac after all, so that will require some work as well! So with getting the DC output you need to use the centre tap and wire in some diodes or something like that?? to make a rectifier?? I've not done much in the way of electronics since my engineering apprenticeship if you couldn't tell! that was over 10 years ago and I didn't know that much then either!

Yeah I think I will try and get everything in the cabinet that's already on the side of the machine and then just use a laptop on a bench beside the machine for now. I did see someone had a nice setup with a mini PC in the cabinet and a touchscreen monitor mounted beside the machine, that looked like a nice setup which I may look into for a future project. Need to make sure I can get the thing working first though!