color is unimportant, battery positive belongs to the starter, negative is the ground .... you likely need to polarize the regulator/generator having run it with reversed connections .... but you should find out what else you hooked up wrong first off

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics