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Power from the grid is AC. It falls to zero a hundred times a second.

• hwillis 8y ago
  Sure, but it doesnt depend on the load. Two different kinds of voltage variance.
  • jonsen 8y ago
    It does depend on the load. The grid voltage is transformed to a lower suitable voltage. The transformer has an inner resistance as a battery has. The AC voltage is rectified and smoothed with a relatively big capacitor. There is a ripple in the DC voltage because the AC can only charge the capacitor in the part of the AC cycle when the varying voltage is higher than the voltage level on the capacitor. If you charge an equal size capacitor from a big battery there will be ripple due to the inner resistance of the battery, but much less ripple because the battery voltage is always higher than the capacitor voltage. Other things equal the battery will give a smoother DC to the amplifier. Anyway ripple is not the problem in question here. The problem is various noise from the grid finding its way through the transformer and further into the amplifier. There is very little noise from a battery compared to the grid.