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Not sure what you mean by Exide battery. If you mean an automotive battery, the answer is no. NiCad batteries are peculiar in that they like to be discharged fully before they are recharged otherwise they slowly loose the ability to be fully charged. Exide are wet cell technology and and ordinary automotive charger is all you need.
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That is correct Robert. It is the standard charger made by DeWalt. If there is a different one, I am not aware of it. RBP
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I recently ruined two of my NiCAD batteries for my DeWalt drill by leaving them in the charger too long. Max charge time should not exceed 75 minutes. So I purchased a two hour timer and mounted it in a double wide junction box with a duplex receptacle on one side and the timer on the other. I wired one socket to the timer and the other to the line