I have an odd question about adressing fixtures with the DMX operator pro

In the manual it states that you can only have 8 fixtures (more if you have the same fixtures on one address) Well, I've addressed fixtures on button 1 and have been able to address a fixture on 9 as well (with the channel bank button pressed) is this supposed to be possible?

With this method I have been able to address and and have control of 14 different fixtures (by pressing the channel bank button it seems I can access fixtures 9-16, button off 1-8)

I've added two more moving lights recently and tried to address them on the two left over addresses, this did not work. what did work however is when I addresses the new lights on address 14(fixture 14) it works when I press button (fixture 7).... I have it working now so I have 16 different fixtures working independently.

My main question is when the channel bank button is pressed and you press fixture 1 does it bank down to fixture 9 ??

I've gone back and done some more investigating on this.....

When I choose fixture 1 I have access to the first 8 channels. When I push the bank button, then I have access to 9-16. If I address my second fixture on channel 9 (wich would be address 9) I can control the next 7 channels for that fixture.

When I choose fixture 2 (That address is 17) again i have control over the next 7 channels. When I hit channel bank, i now have access to the next 8 channels, but if I address a fixture on 25, that is the first channel of that bank (9) again I have control over that fixture.

What this says to me, each fixture has 16 channels but I've essentially split that so each fixture has 8 channels, thus 16 fixtures. This only works if your fixtures only use 8 channels. Which mine only use 8.

I hope maybe this is right and may help some people out.

cheers.