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Step-by-Step Installation Guide

In this guide, we will show you step by step how to easily mount the Copperzilla on your Bitaxe yourself.

The guide for setting up the Bitaxe is available here.

Congratulations on your new Copperzila 2.0 Upgrade Kit

Do not touch the heatsink with your bare hands! The fine film of grease on the skin will cause permanent stains when it comes into contact with the copper.
Only handle by the fan and/or wear gloves!

Take off Heatsink

1. Removal of the old heatsink

  • Carefully disconnect the fan's power supply from the pins.
  • Carefully unscrew the 4 screws that go through the Bitaxe from the back.
  • Carefully lift the heatsink off the miner.
  • Carefully and thoroughly clean the ASIC chip with a suitable cleaning cloth.

Parts overview of the Copperzilla

2. Preliminary Review

Check if your Copperzilla kit is complete. In the box, you will find the following parts:

  • 1x Assembled Copperzilla incl. fan
  • 4x Spacers
  • 4x Hex nuts
  • 1x Mounting plate
  • 1x Hex screw head
  • Optionally: Thermal paste incl. cleaning cloth

Additionally, you will, of course, need your Bitaxe.

Check if the screws are tightned

3. Preparation

Check that the 4 screws of the Copperzilla are fully tightened and have not come loose during transport.

Apply Thermal paste to the ASIC Chip

4. Apply thermal paste

Apply a lens-sized dab centered on the ASIC chip

Wedding of the Heatsink and the Bitaxe 602 Bitcoin miner

5. Wedding

To connect the Copperzilla to the miner, you absolutely must remove the protective film from the contact surface.
Make sure that the curved heat pipes face upwards and the fan cable faces downwards!
Then carefully place the miner upside down onto the heatsink. The chip should now lie flat on the contact surface.

Copperzilla gets screwed on the bitaxe 602

6. Screw connection

  • place the 4 spacers on the 4 screws
  • place the mounting plate on the spacers
  • place the 4 hex nuts on the screws

You can tighten the nuts gently by hand with the supplied hex screwdriver head (max. 1-2Nm).

Do not overtighten, otherwise the ASIC may be damaged!

Fan gets plugged in

7. Connect fan

Now carefully plug the fan cable onto the pins at the bottom end of the mainboard.

Then you can push the fan all the way up towards the display so that it slightly protrudes to further increase performance. This way, the voltage converter is also passively cooled.

Miner settings get adjusted in AxeOS

8. Adjust Settings

Now that heat generation has been maximally reduced, you can adjust the frequency in your AxeOS Dashboard to generate even more hashes per second.
Our recommendation:

🟢 Silent Mode – 750 MHz / 1200 mV → ~1.5 TH/s
Whisper-quiet fan speeds. ~50% more hashrate than typical standard Bitaxes.

🔴 Performance Mode – 1000 MHz / 1300 mV → ~2 TH/s
Yes. 2 Terahash on a single Bitaxe!