The guy at the shop I usually take my bikes to told me he could figure out if it was the stater or the rotor.
I rolled into the shop, left the engine running, he brought out a sizable phallic looking device with tester leads on it and was able to determine that the battery, stater, and rotor were all good but that the rectifier was bad. I didn't want to explore details because my battery was draining as we spoke and he told me that even though it started, the bike is running off the battery to a degree and it could cut out at any time.
So I left, then it cut out, so I left it at the shop and he's going to order the rectifier and put it in.
Since having to jump the bike each time and also the possibility of it stopping in mid ride are unpleasantries I prefer to avoid, I'm thinking that I'll just keep it on the tinder each night and in the morning if it's below green that means the tinder couldn't charge it fully even with a full night and that something'ss rotten in Denmark.