If your door has extension springs the opener must be installed in the center of the door.
Off center garage door opener.
The only consideration is the door is balanced properly on spring tension.
As you said run perforated angle iron from the center stile to the next stile over.
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An opener will work ok off center of the door but really needs to be perpendicular to the door.
To offset mount the opener arm to the door section.
That battery backup will power the garage door opener for up to 50 cycles when the main power is out.
Use one piece as near to the top as you can which would be.
I have seen lots of 16 wide and wider doors with the operator to one side or the other.
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