Alternator/Electrical Question

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IT'S ALIVE....IT'S ALIVE...after numerous hours of tinkering and replacing several wires/parts she was reading 13.8ish/14.0 even with the fans and lights on. Not sure what it ended up being but I think it was one of three choices #1 I replaced the voltage regulator (even though I had just replaced it 3 weeks ago), couldn't be sure if I fried it mish mashing wires. It was a cheap swap out. #2 I have looped battery cable ends so I was using a connector on the top posts. I switched to the side posts after I noticed that whenever i brought it to advanced auto to charge/check the battery it would always come up as BAD when i had the connectors on and GOOD when it was directly connected to the posts. So I assumed that if the machine was having a hard time reading through the connectors maybe a charge wasn't getting back to the battery #3 I already had a wire running from the BAT of the alternator to my fuse panel and in turn a wire was running from the fuse panel into the solenoid (and then on to the battery), but I also ran a direct wire from BAT to the solenoid (bypassing the fuse pannel). So I really want to send out a big THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for getting me up and running

Regards
Ryan