Tonimus
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HAHAHAHAHA Exactly! So, at first I attempted to follow the "1 wire alternator" install, which *does* have you put the battery wire in 1.
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It didn't seem to charge, so I decided to plug the other wire in to the other side... forgetting that I needed to swap them. It started charging. Then I left it like that overnight, came out to a dead battery, disconnected both wires, got it running (and it charged, since the alternator still had magnetism in it) and the rest you know. Tada. Iterative stupidity.
FYI, a lot of times when running a one wire alternator, you need to give it some rpms to excite it. Just for future reference.