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The problem you're going to have is that 'electric heater' means relatively high draw, that is the last thing you want to do on an inverter.
I suspect your estimation of a 500 watt heater is a little on the light side too. I don't know how far north you are, or how well insulated the pumphouse is, but I'd bet a 500 watt heater wouldn't do much about keeping things warm if it got much below zero.
It certainly is possible to hobble a system together, lots of people around here have, the problem though always comes back to capacity and endurance. If you have enough storage capacity then the cost is so high that you might as well have a genset and just be done with it.
Best of luck.
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IMHO as someone who has several 'seasonal residences', cottage, farm house, hunt camp, and has too much experience at fixing frozen plumbing to admit to....
I would dig a 3' square pit about 4' deep, not too far from the back door, build a 4' square 'wee hoose' with a cresent moon cut into door on top of the pit and winterize the place each fall.
Unless you plan on spending a lot of time up there it's the safest and least expensive way to go.
Buy a couple of 5 gallon water containers and pack them along with your food when you go up there. Just don't foget to empty od pour anti-freeze into the trap in any sinks you pour the water into.
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I know it's a little late, but, there is a very simple way to make a thermostat function at a different temperature range than the manufacturer's settings.
The thermostat uses a bi-metallic coil spring which rotates a mercury switch as it reacts to changes in ambient temperature. However, the switch does not know which way is up. If you mount the thermostat on the wall out of plumb, that is rotated either direction, then the 'on' point and the 'off' point get shifted also. It just takes a little experimenting to get the shifted temperatures calibrated back to the dial. I just adjust them so that the reading on the face of the thermostat is exactly 20° off and put a note on it to that effect.
I did this with the alarm systems at my seasonal homes, then hooked the thermostat to one alarm zone. If the alarm goes off it auto-dials my cell phone automatically, the zone that is registering trouble tells me if it is the temperature and I can either call someone or go myself.
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