I have two ceiling fans in my living room. The room itself has 14-foot ceilings and the fans are on 3-foot down rods. Right now, the receivers are at the very top of the fans, basically in the ceiling and this makes them very, very difficult to reach. At present, the way that the receivers are set, they have to be wedged under the caps at the top of the down rods and are extremely hard to get in place and install. I was wondering, is there any reason I couldn't just run standard insulated electrical wire down the rod and connect the receiver closer to the fans? That would make working in there a lot easier and both fans have upper and lower lights, and the receivers are about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It seems like this would be better moving forward.

Hello, I have a few F. lights in my basement. It's very hard to turn them on when in summer since it's pretty humid. As winter comes, everything is back to normal. I suspect the ballast be the culprit but not sure. Btw, I have T12 for now based on the size of the balbs. I need to make sure before replacing the ballast. I have 6 lights, each has 2 balbs. 3 of them are good and the other 3 are not. The sockets and the ends of the balbs are cleaned and no issues with connection. Please let me know if more info needed. Thanks in advance.