Wireless x-box controller crashes Mach3

I upgraded my x-box controller to a wireless version. It works good, and is nice not being tethered to the computer. The one issue I have is the wireless controller will power itself down after a while. When this happens, Mach has an error triggered and then it crashes. The only way to get everything working again is to turn the x-box controller back on, cycle the power on the table control box and restart mach.

Has anybody found a way to overcome this limitation with the wireless controller?