Third party battery suddenly shuts down, works fine in another macbook as does another battery in mine, is it compatability issues?

I recently purchased a chinese battery off Ebay, it immediatley started the notebook up, but once i opened a video stream or it need more juice, the screen and system just shut off, instantly! Tried a friends battery in my notebook and all fine, then put suspect battery in his notebook and that worked fine, so why wont it work with my notebook? I can just about manage to surf the web on it, but if a lot of flash starts, out it goes? Fan operating at normal too. The macbook is a ealry 2008 model. Any ideas?

Check http://www.macsales.com/ for more reliable batteries being sold if you can't afford Apple's own.
The batteries must have the same milliamp hour or higher than the original specs call for, in addition to fitting properly in the said slot.
A few older MacBooks had batteries that due to an industry wide sabotage had batteries that expanded. This caused damage to the battery bay. Apple for awhile had a repair/exchange program to fix this issue. Check with your local authorized service center if they still have the parts necessary for that repair.

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I've read a lot of threads in here on related stuff.
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* I had both shut-downs and display-darks, on power-supply and on batteries.
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* Slight tweaking or shaking the machine doesn't reproduce prob's nor help.
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