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Information on Furnas Electric products is getting harder and harder to find since their purchase by Siemens Automation a few years back.
However, the Furnas 96KM40AA PLC was actually a brand labeled Mitsubishi F2-40MR-UL (see Furnas/Mitsu cross reference on our website). The software for the Mitsubishi F1/F2 is still available (just not from Mitsubishi). It is called MEDOC (created by Beijer in Norway).
(Note: the newer Windows® software "GX-Developer" will not work on the F2).
A “converter” is required to connect your laptop up to the F2. This “converter/cable” was called F-Link. (It converted RS422 from the PLC to RS232 for your PC.) The problem is, that the F-Link is obsolete and no longer available.
Therefore, unless you can find (or borrow) a Mitsubishi F-Link (or Shihlin A-Link ), you probably cannot program your 96KM with a laptop. The only other option is to use the hand-held programmer. I do not know what the Furnas designation is/was. But the Mitsubishi part number is F1-20P-E. This also is obsolete. As the actual manufacturer of the Mitsubishi PLC line, Shihlin Electric continued making the programmer, and sold it as “A1-20P-E”. The last time we sold one of these was mid-2003. I will check to see if there are any still available, if you wish.
I hope you find this information helpful.
Good luck with your project.
