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Originally posted by Joe
Water temps are shown. and yes ambient was room temp. Amazing how I was able to keep the room temp within 1 DegC in a 4 month span between tests 
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Wouldn´t changes in the relative humidity of the air in your lab, change the performance of the radiator.
As far as I know a higher relative humidity of the air can transfer more heat.
The same thing goes for air presure.
the higher air presure the better heat transfer.
At least the humidity does change quite a bit between the difrent seasons. It does of course depend on where you live, but the changes are quite big here in Sweden, where the humidity is very low in the cold subzero winter days and high in the varm rainy summer days.
The effect of humidity can quite easily be tested by runinga a bong-cooler for a few hours in the lab, between two test runs of a waterblock.(should get the relative humidity up to at least 90%).
My personal uneducated gues is that the air presure is negliable, but that the humidity is of importance.
Great review by the way.
/Mr_Pyro