What sort of rules state you can't run a battery?

If it's a PGM-II model (i.e. r5k or r6k) it definately needs either a battery or some kind of smoothing condenser, you can't just drop the battery out of the circuit and run everything from the reg/rec.

Its been discussed before here.
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