ignition problems

sorry i have not been talking, been gone for a couple days, and to clear some things up, when i turn the key on i have 13.6 volts at my battery and 12.5 volts at the positive side of the coil and i have 1.5 volt at the negative side of the coil, wonder why haynes says the negative should be 1 volt from the battery voltage? Anyways so if 13.5 at battery is normal and 12.5 volts at the positive side of the coil is normal and 1.5 volts at the negative side of coil is normal then it should be wired right, could it be my ballast resistor causing it to run a little muddy when i first start it up? or does that sound like a vaccume leak as well? my carb is an edelbrock 600cfm manual choke, i did put a new air filter on it, i had a different air filter and i threw on an edelbrock air filter case with a bigger filter... maybe i knocked a hose loose somehwere i'm pinching a hose off somewhere? i dont really know, i'll check it all out tommarrow, this thing with the voltage regulator is still conbfusing me tho... I talked to a guy on ramchargercentral.com and he told me to wire the blue wire from voltage regultor to the ecu power wire and that it'd be fine???