Now I'm going really nuts! I may call Painless in the morning. I can't even find the kit that I bought on their site. I was wanting to link to a picture of the instructions.
The pigtail connector has the "exciter" wire run to the Ignition switched hot lead from the original regulator plug.
The other pigtail wire is run directly to the hot post on the back of the alternator, as you mentioned Dennis.
This is where it gets fun: There are actually TWO other large gauge hot wires running from the back of the alternator (so 3 total connectors on one post). One of the hot wires goes directly to the hot alternator lead from the original harness. The other wire goes to one side of their "Maxi-Fuse". The other side of the fuse in turn goes to the battery. Essentially, there are two hot wires now, from the back of the alternator. The additional one is linked with a big fuse and goes directly to a B+ while the other goes to the battery via the stock harness. Make sense?
I thought the installation was funky when I did it, but it all checked out, and it ran like a champ for a while. It's also directly per their diagrams and even speaking to them on the phone to verify. So I'm not really leaning toward the design as the issue. Their wiring kit is totally different now, though, and I wonder if they have decided that was a bad design or something.
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