nah perfect chief, chucked the pins back to the original config. and its working fine,
wanted to plug the keypad straight into the nano so that was my only reason to adjust it.
Im looking to add 2 inputs and 2 outputs to this code
the inputs would be limit switches for the travel of the gate
and the outputs would be for directional relays
im guessin 'if's and 'else's would be the way to go.....