How do I discharge the capacitors in my PS audio P20 ?

How will the capacitors be recharged with no power applied to unit. I worked as a audio repair tech for 40 years and it always worked to drain off power supply charges 

bmbmzig

How will the capacitors be recharged with no power applied to unit.

They won't, of course. I misread the question.

Shorting a high uF cap directly is a bad idea. You can in fact ruin an otherwise good cap.

Also, worth noting the voltage rating on a cap. If it’s 50V say or less, it’s not that dangerous.

If you don’t have a 10W resistor, just use a bigger Ohm resistor and wait longer. What’s the big deal?

Lastly, why on earth is someone who doesn’t know how to measure or discharge a capacitor safely getting into the guts of an appliance?

Just curious. What "wire" came loose, and why? Was this a quality control issue with PS Audio? Wires "coming loose" in a power regenerator, having high voltages inside don't sound good. An end user who is not a legit electronics tech attempting to mess around "fixing it" doesn't sound like the smartest idea either. Just sayin'. If you are concerned about safety (and you SHOULD be!) take it to an electronics tech and get it done right with some peace of mind. 

+1 @erik_squires .

I am not an electrician, but thanks to the seniority bump & bid system I did a few tours through the electric shop of a major airline. We used what I remember being called a "shunt" to discharge all caps. (It is possible I remembered the terminology wrong.) But basically it was a wire with a probe on each end and a resistor soldered in the wire (obviously between the two probes). What everyone did, so therefore what I did, was when working on something with caps involved was, put one probe on one lead of the cap and the other probe on the other lead of the cap, and that would discharge it. I did just dig out the "shunt" that I took home and kept for my own use and measured the resistance, and I read 123.8 ohms on it.

Once just for the helluvit, I decided to check the caps on an old preamp that I have, and for that I used this handy-dandy cap checker from China that I bought on Amazon. However, I forgot to discharge the cap I was checking first. The cap did discharge, but it cost me my handy-dandy cap checker.