62 Valiant 200 / 170 cuin /6 - Odd smell - then dead battery

Actually now I'm not sure where the fault is.
I thought you were just bypassing the regulator. That would explain why the voltage followed rpm.
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But reading this, it sounds like the field wire was jumped.
Which then resulted in the connection to the rotor being made.
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If so, then the regulator should be controlling the voltage.
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