Just a thought, and it is a disturbing one. I can't tell from your pics entirely as I'm not sure how the different terminals up at the generator a labeled, but the smoke may be just temporary and absolutely normal. Your light switch is the 4-position (Low charge), H(igh charge), D(im), B(right). If teh tractor has been sitting around gathering dust, it's entirely possible that the smoke is not from a wiring problem, but from the fact that the two resistors on the back of the switch -- the flat one at the bottom where the grey wire hooks up that controls the charge rate (L/H) or the double ended round one that shares a stud with the balck wire with the blue insulator on it which control the D/B fucntion for the lights -- are getting heated up for the first time in a long time, and the dust is burning off of them as they heat up. Had that experience. IF that is the case, the smoke shall pass, just detrmine that that is infact the issue, and then run it on low charge for a while and then on dim lights until all the crud is burned away.
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