Is the krausen line you are talking about on the coil or on the side of the tank? I realize the coil is attached to the lid so it's being tilted so you can take the pic, but it seems to me if you had around 6 gal in the conical that only 3-4 of the coils were actually in the wort which would possibly lead to lack of cooling performance. Anyway you could put an identical amount of water that you had in the last batch into the conical and rerun the temp tests and then try it with 10-11 gals to see if there's a difference?
I'm pretty sure that the krausen line on the coil corresponds to the line on the side of the conical, but now you have me questioning that a bit. Later I'll double check that. If only 3 or 4 of the coils were in the beer, I agree--that's not a lot of cooling.