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Question Rigging a PC power supply

Let me do a little explaining before i ask my question to save myself hassle down the road, just bear with me. Frequently when I do electrical work for our team and I want to test a part (just to see if its physically running) I connect it to a little homemade 6 volt battery pack however the pack isn't rechargeable so I end up paying a fortune on batteries, also it wont provide power to everything (at least not for a decent amount of time). So anyway a week ago I was playing with the PC power Source and I realized "hey most of the voltages that this outputs are same voltages FIRST parts run on." Recently Ive been using it to test out some of the older parts (Sometimes a multimeter just won't do), after I removed the Molex connectors and crimped on some alligator clips. It's been working fine and it won't damaged anything, however to work it has to be connected to a motherboard. So far Ive been solving this problem by using a real old board I had on a shelf but when season starts I don't want to carry it everywhere with me. Is their any way I can rig a power source to run by itself?
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