Bridging an amp with a dvc sub

Hopefully someone might be able to settle an argument I am having with a friend.

If you take a sub with dual 4ohm voice coils and connect it to 2 channels of  a Sony XM-504 4 ch amp what is the best way to wire it up?

Do you run one voice coil off each channel with the low pass filter on and would it be putting a stereo signal through the sub 

Or do you parallel both vc's up and run the amp in bridged mode.

If you parallel both 4ohm vc's together does this give a 2ohm load or does the amp see it as a 1ohm load. 

Ok, for one, I do beleive that this question has been answered many of times.

First of, it is not recomended to wire A DVC sub to seperate cahnnels. The coils of a DVC Sub should be wired either in a Parrallel or Series configuration to each other. And should look something like this.

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	Wiring Option #2 Chris

Just to clarify things.

There is 1 Boschmann sub with 2x4ohm vc's and one sony amp which is running components and the sub.

The sub is wired up in parallel and bridged onto the rear channels of the amp at the moment.

Obviously 2x 4ohm vc's paralleled will equal 2ohms, but does the amp see it as a 1 or 2 ohm load.If it is 1ohm how does this work?

If it is 1 ohm would I be better to wire the vc's in series to give 8ohms and then bridge it giving 4 ohms ? 

Sorry DYohn, I posted the wrong pic.

The amp will see a 2ohm load wired this way.

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Chris

you don't really understand bridging,

you keep saying, it's 2 ohms, then bridged it's 1,,,, if you only have one speaker,, then it doesn't change the impedence (ohms) by bridging it,,, if it's 2 ohms,,, it's 2 ohms,, so the sub, in parrallel, bridged, is a 2 ohm load,, this is to low of a load for that amp to run, technically,,, your amp is only ment to have a 4 ohm load bridged, so the right way to do it is to wire it at 8 ohms, and then bridge it, BUT, with one sub at 8 ohms on that amp, it will only be putting out half the power it's suposed to, there really isn't a very good way to wire this properly, it's just a bad match with the sub and the amp... but i would do the 8 ohm wire setup, less chance of sending smoke signals out of your trunk

This will blow your amp.

The load is 2-ohms.  You are connecting it to two amplifier channels bridged together.  Each amplifier channel  will operate into half the total load, or 1-ohm in this case.  The amp will fry wired like this.  You need to wire for 8-ohms, in which case each of the two amplifier channels will opearate into half the load, or 4-ohms.

Finally.

That is exactly the answer I was after.Thanks DYohn.

This is not my system .I installed the amp for a customer and another installer sold him the amp afterwards, which is obviously a bad match for the amp. He originally wired onevoice coil off each channel , effectively running tthe vc's in stereo, which is where we got into this disagreement.

Thanks for all the replies.