Sorry for the late reply, i didn't realise this had got past the mods yet ;)

I actually got an answer within about 2 mins of posting this on the mach3 forums(hood is damn quick 8) ), turns out the pul/dir pins in mach3 where round the wrong way, I did follow the pinouts in the instructions but hey...all working now ;)

Andy, yep nothing in the estop yet, it's set low so working as normally open while I get the bugs out. proper estop on the way for when it gets all plumbed in ;)

Thanks guys.

...........Rikk