Well, I'm the "moar cotton!" guy, so I'm here to say you prolly need more cotton. I make sure my cotton is SNUG in the coils, I cut my cotton even with the base section of the tank and fluff/fan the cotton out, like I can't stress how much I fluff it out, and then I lightly tuck it into the juice well, whilst dry. Then I wet the wicks and make sure there's a gap between the cotton and the underside of my coils, plus I make sure it all looks purdy. And that's all I do. But I'll let you know, I just finished a single coil build on the 3-post deck and it's still chuckin some clouds, so I don't know about getting less vapor production out of this tank. You could prolly run some 28awg and get slightly less, but still cloudz bro.