Wiring 4 Channel Amp to 1 DVC Sub

I have a RF Punch 800 A4 (4 channel amp) and i wanna hook up one kicker L5 DVC sub (4ohm) to it, should i just bridge each coil? Or is there a better way to get the most power from the amp?

thanks!

Dual 4 ohm sub, wire to 2 ohm by paralleling voice coils, then......get a class D mono amp.  And save the 4 channel amp for speakers.  Now, if you were to connect each voice coil to two channels, what you've described is the best way you'll get the most power from that amp.  But wiring each coil to a separate amplifier is not recommended (consider a 4 channel amp as two separate amps).  Voice coils should be wired together before connection to an amp.

Hmmmm, been selling and installing many many years now, seen many burned up amplifiers in my days and most of them were the new breed of class D mono amps. Ravendarat is correct, in the days before class D there was class AB and they work mighty fine, in some cases far superior to class D as well. Class A is a totally inefficent amp but it sure is a stellar sounding amplifier, Class AB is a combination of better efficientcy and respectable sound and class D is designed for high output, low heat applications. An amplifier in any case is designed to get hot, if an amp is not getting hot, it is not doing it's job. Heat is a natural byproduct of producing power in any form.

If your friend has a two foot burn circle in his trunk, then he had something covering the heatsink and is damn lucky that it did not start a fire. The flip side to this is that his amp dead shorted and the main power wire was not fused at the battery and this dead short started a fire at the amp (iproper installation). At the far far reaches of possibilities, he had bought an amplifier that had a non functioning thermal switch. No offence dude (looks for BS flag) but I do not believe that story. Been doin this for way to long and know a load of smelly material when I see it.

im not really understanding what you're saying. you should proofread your post before you post them. so what you're saying is, i'm just imagining a fire in his trunk. wow, i guess i need to see a shrink. you didn't call me on anything. just because you haven't seen something happen, doesn't mean it's not possible. its kinda shallow to think you're some kind of car stereo god. if you were you wouldnt be on this forum. do you actually think that i'd make up a story like that? i dont know exactly if it was a fire, it couldve been just a lot of heat that melted the carpet. i dont know for sure, i dont ride in the trunk. all i know is i opened his trunk cause his amp shut off and thats what i saw. a 2 foot surrounding of messed up carpet. and it didnt have anything covering the heatsink. i've seen some pretty stupid things happen. i grew up in a time and place where people were broke and had to come up with different stupid ways to make a system. my friends had some pretty unsafe stereos. one had an extension cord as a power wire. he just cut the ends and used one the wires on the inside. no inline fuse of course. one dropped a cap in his car while he was installing it and it fused to the bottom of his car. one had a discman running through his amp with a jack he cut from a pair of headphones, connected to a house speaker. he just set the whole box in his trunk. one of my friends and his dad were installing some kind of power wire and they messed up on something(i cant remember exactly what they did wrong) but when his dad had the wire in his hand, a huge amount of power went through it and burnt the sh*t out of his hand. it was a green electric fire in the wire.