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Thankyou all for the advice so far. I've been looking at the power. From what I can see, I'm doing everything right except for running the power off the FDTI power supply. I'm getting a read of 3.28v across the pins & I've got a well sized capacitor so would have thought power would be ok.

The only other power supply that I had to hand was an Adafruit Huzzah Feather which I presume would do the job as good as anything else?

I'll look up the circuit. I've been trying different options & I've probably gone down a bit of a rabbit hole.

I think I'm getting somewhere. Found this: http://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/e ... oards.html & going to try out the schematic under the title "ESP to Serial". Would you say I'm going along the right tracks? Thanks for you help.

definitely YES

Your connection is not exactly what do you need for proper programming the ESP8266 module.

For a basic configuration with Reset and Programming buttons, take a look at the nEXT Evo board schematics

If you want a more advanced configuration, with Auto-reset capabilities, maybe also isolated interface to protect your computer USB ports, etc, look also at the USBProg schematic

You definitely need also a proper 3.3Vcc power supply, the 3.3Vcc provided by the FT232 is not powerful enough.