shonky / Mlord, it was a silly reply on my part, i'm not a technical genius, but just wanted to check,

when testing the majority of voltages on the plugs, i was grounding to the neg pin on the power input, but laterly wondered whether that in itself might give me an odd reading, it's been a while since i messed about with electrical stuff to find faults, prob 6-7yrs+ now, like everything else, if you stop doing something everyday, it soon loses it's 2nd nature status and you have to begin thinking again! re testing the pins, it was just a case of brain not in gear, i'll check em again later.

i'll let you know