I would like to know how to reduce the brightness of the running lamp in the tail lights of my tow car. It is a MINI Cooper and each tail light contains one single filament running lamp. These lamps also act as the brake lights in normal(not towed) driving. I believe the car's electronics change the voltage from say 5.5v as a running light to 12v as a brake light although I haven't confirmed this. Since I will tow this car with my RV, the running light feed from the RV will range 12v-14.6v. This high of a voltage will appear that the brake lights are illuminated and also create unnecessary heat within the tail light. I don't know how to calculate the proper size resister to safely reduce the brightness to say maybe half. There are two lamps, 21w each that are fed from one line. I have diodes in the circuit so there won't be any type of back feed into the car's electronics. Thank you for your help. Howard