Why is it when hacking a cable up and metering to find out which wires belong to which pins it is always the last ones out of all that are the ones you need

Ok there is definitely something weird with it as I tested here and with the Mach2 xml it was fine but the Mach3 one it was as you said.
What I would suggest is you set up a new xml from scratch and see if that helps, if it doesnt then I will investigate a bit more and see if I can find the issue but as its well past midnight here it will be tomorrow evening before I can.
Hood

Thanks.

It's 8pm here now so it will probably go to tomorrow eve here too.

The shop is about 100' from the house, it's -8 deg C with about 60cm of snow on the ground, going to take the evening off.   

Mark

What it looks like, jogging in MACH2 environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUQg1QKdwzI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Just reporting in.  I have been working on the mechanicals of the table and have put the MACH config problem on the back burner for now.
I will be back on configuring MACH3 shortly.
It looks like this so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGzswFp7cw&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw42H-y6_iQ&feature=channel

Latest update. I finished up the mechanicals and created a new profile in MACH3 this past weekend and all is good. Homing and limits working too. Relieved.

Thanks HOOD for your help!

Additional vid clips of the build progress here. (Testing was done in MACH2) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwRt-gzxcJo&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7LXEmfKbU&feature=relmfu

Good to hear, looks like its working well
Hood