Two years ago I decided to take a leap of faith and upgrade my air conditioner. A $500 investment has taken me months of research and testing in my basement before deciding that it was time to make a move. My basement as of this writing has a three-month old baby so I needed to upgrade ASAP! I needed the A/C to continue working reliably and effectively but also wanted to build up an already phenomenal system that would be able to operate for many more years. It didn’t make sense for me not to upgrade. The reason for this decision is that air conditioning doesn’t get warm too much, so upgrading your overall system didn’t make sense either.