I agree with JimN below. Most likely you hooked the battery up backward. Unfortunately when you do this the alternator "looks" like a short circuit to the electrical system and things start to smoke.
The knob below the ammeter is the light switch. Depending on the year the tractor was built it may have been a combination light switch/generator control switch. But with an alternator conversion it's now simply a light switch.
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