Thought this'd be easy, but…I could really use some help, before I burn down our new home.

We just got a new home & my wife wanted ceiling fans with lights. The fans have a green ground wire, a black (fan), a white, and a striped black (light) wire.

I have removed the 2 covers in the ceiling. Cover #1 has a pair of copper wires (grounds), a pair of capped red wires, a pair of capped black wires, and a pair of tightly rolled and pushed to the way back white wires with no caps on them. Cover #2 has the same as above, but just one color of each with the black and red being capped and the white pushed way back with no cap on it.

There are 4 switches on the wall: one goes to the upside-down electrical plug in the room, one is a dimmer and controls the overhead lighting set, and 2 wall switches that seem to go to the fan/light boxes. When I look inside the 4th switch has a red and black wire connected, and the third switch has 2 blacks connected. No whites seem to be connected to the light switches.

I tried to use

My question is: Do I connect the fan to ceiling; green to green(s), white to white(s), black and striped black to the black(s) and forget the red(s)? Then do the same for the ceiling box that only has on of each color? Or do I go G2G, W2W, B2B, and StripedBlack2Red?

I don't care if one switch turns on the light and fan at cover #1 and the second turns on the second fan/light or if the 1st light switch turns on both lights and the second light switch turns on both fans. (The latter would be cooler–both figuratively and literally.)

I just don't want to keep putting up & taking down the fixtures trying to get this to work.

Thanks in advance for any help out there!:confused:

Got it. Another post had a different problem, but a similar outcome that suggested my solution.

G->G, W->W, B->B, & BW->R = 1 switch for fans, & the other for lights on both units.

Success! :)

The whites don't go to the switches. The whites in first box likely needs to be connected
Together. Black may be from 1 switch and red from other switch.
2 of a couple possibilities:
Black and Black/white to red on one fan, and black and black/white to red of other fan, then 1 switch turns on light AND fan of fan 1, other switch turns off light and fan of fan2.

Another way would be Both fans black to black, and both fans black/white to red, this allows 1 switch to turn on both lights, and other switch to turn on both fans.

The whites don't go to the switches. The whites in first box likely needs to be connected ~They Did

Another way would be Both fans black to black, and both fans black/white to red, this allows 1 switch to turn on both lights, and other switch to turn on both fans. ~Yes!

Thank you.

So you got it working now?