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[Mart]

Paul. You don't polarise the regulator, you polarise the generator.
With all connections in place, you remove the field wire at the regulator and flash it on the bat terminal a couple of times then reattach it. This is pre-loading the field terminals with the correct voltage to polarise the generator. In effect you put a straight 12V* straight to the field windings.
* if you are running 12V if not, 6V.