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Very subjective, though!
I would replace the halogens with leds which will cut the current draw to 1/10 of what it was previously
But that's not the only consideration. My daughter has a fitting [I imagine very much like OP] but with 7 'wire ball' shades, we couldn't find LED's which fitted in through the apeture and I carefully opened a gap in the wire to get the LED's in then close it up.Very subjective, though!
It isn't straight forward as the cables from the lamps appear to be co-axial using the screen as a conductor.
Push in connectors will not accept braided screen strands.
If those leads are being kept then crimp ferrules on the screens and central conductors ( 14 ferrules ) together with terminal strips.
For what it is worth my opinion is that the existing lamps are almost certain to provide better light than any LED
I think we were going for more like 3W to get the same sort of light level through the wire shades.The cables are indeed co-axial. I've gone down the terminal strip route. I've picked up a 20w LED driver and ordered some 1.2w LEDS all in for £20. Happy to sacrifice light, to be fair its more a feature that hangs down over a not often used dining room table but can be seen from the rest of the room if you get my gist. That said the boss will have the ultimate say, so I'll keep the original transformer and bulbs
Thanks all for you help, I was initially ready to bin it until someone suggested otherwise further up the thread and then I saw the cost of replacing it was silly money so all good.
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