>Since I intend to use this as a hobbyist bench supply
> I'll leave the connections as found and use relatively short leads.
> I appreciate the explanations and feel I understand them quite well.
> You can be assured that you have added to my education (and fun).

Note that the sense leads can be much lighter than the main power 
leads. You can run main leads for some distance from the supply and 
include thin sense wires eg taped to them and connected only at the 
far ends. Even in a hobby application this can be very useful.

The use for bypassing a current meter that someone mentioned may be 
more useful than you may expect. A multimeter set to eg 200 mA range 
may have a resistance of say 15 ohms. So it would drop 0.200 x 15 = 3 
volts !!!! at full scale. Having the sense leads connected beyond the 
meter would eliminate the effect of this unknown and potentially (no 
pun intended) very awkward resistance.


        RM

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