to follow up I put the same switch in backwards by desoldering and turning the switch around and I could not get any readings up, left, right and when I hit the switch down I got .677k
Yeah, last year when I made my first heatermeter, without using a printed circuit board, it was my first electronics project and I learned how invaluable the multimeter and Bryans along with Eds help was at getting it to work. The multimeter can help ya figure out just about everything except maybe the serial connections and the programming.