Skip white distributor wiring

So yesterday I dropped in my new hei distributor from skip white with accel super stock canister coil. Everything started and idles fine. This morning I jump in to pull out of my garage and all I got was a click.I jump start the car and its running fine. Turn it off and it struggles to turn over.
I have my plug gaps at 40. When I wired it all up, I bypassed the ballast tesistor by just plugging in a wire with two male spades plugged into the factory ballast resistor female spade plugs. Do I have this wired wrong? The drained battery this morning has me concerned and the hard to start state it's in doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling either. Without starting the cheap distributor war again is there any unbiased technical help someone can give me?