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How to make the simulator behave as a real, imperfect mount ?

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I am trying to setup a flawed mount simulator. That is, one mimicking a real device.
In INDI, the telescope simulator has a Simulation tab with several parameters to set the mount model.
I think this is the place I should use to 'trash' a bit the simulator but I have no idea of the meaning of the terms used and the range and units of them (I have not been able to trigger any tooltip)

Is there some documentation source where this is explained ?
Otherwise, someone could kindly propose a set of parameter values to start from ?
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In case anyone is interested, I found some hints in this post from @hy.
The INDI simulator tab includes the following terms to define the mount model:



A more complete documentation of the meaning of these terms can be found in this article from Patrick Wallace .
I have transcribed Table I from Wallace which describes the six geometric terms for an equatorial mount:


Where h is hour angle and δ is declination

Extracted from the article:
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Wanted to warn you that I'm not satisfied with the mount simulation I've used either, so treat my post as something of a starting point.
Also would be good to simulate seeing--eg random offsets and star broadening. Perhaps all that's in there, but I don't have a recipe yet either.
Let me know!
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