[rickb45]

I just bought a hunter model 22570 stonington with light.
The problem is the room was wired with two switches one for a fan and one for a light. When I took down the old light, the black wires from the light were connected to a single red wire, the white wires from the light were connected to a single white wire from the ceiling box. The copper wires were connected to each other, there was a single black wire from the ceiling box that had a wire nut on it nothing else. The instruction on the fan says to connect the green wire to the bare copper wire, then connect the white wire from the fan to the white (ungrounded) from the fan, OK did that, then comes the problem for a dual switch wiring: the black wire from the ceiling to the black wire from the fan. Well I have a red wire from the ceiling and that strange black wire that has a wire nut on it! The book goes on to say that the black/white wire from the fan to the wire for the wall switch. Well which color of wire from the ceiling box is the wall switch the white, the lone black wire with the wire nut or the red wire. Some body help me please I am just totally... :confused:

[hkstroud]

the room was wired with two switches one for a fan and one for a light.

black wires from the light were connected to a single red wire,

there was a single black wire from the ceiling box that had a wire nut on it nothing else.

Those statements indicate that while you had two switches only one was used and it controlled the power to both the fan and the light. Note that you said black wires(plural) from the light were connected to the red wire.

If there are no other wires in the ceiling box that has to be how the original fan was installed.

The fan instructions are for the more common situation where the power is fed to the ceiling box and a switch leg takes it to the switch and back. When wired like that, you connect the white to the neutral white in the box, the fan black to the hot (black) being fed to the box and the light black to the switched black.

In your case the power is being fed to the switch, the neutral just passes through to the ceiling box. The hot is connected to each switch. The power from one switch is the red wire and the power from the other switch is the black wire.

Connect the fan white to the ceiling box white. Connect the fan ground to ceiling ground, connect the fan black to either the ceiling black or ceiling red. Connect the light black to the other. It matters not which is connected to which. You may reverse these connections if you prefer to reverse which switch controls the light and which controls the fan.

[ceilingfanrepair]

White to white, striped wire to red, black wire to the wire with the nut on it.

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